Ron Paul "filtered" Poll

[silvestris]

This one ought to get your dander up. Did mine.

http://www.rightwingnews.com/mt331/2007/05/analysis_of_the_may_gop_straw.php

 

[CurtisLow]

This says it all...

 

[DjLoTi]

Wow. There's no way to fight this one. I did this poll. I voted for Ron Paul. I'm not a spammer. But how do we prove it? Tough situation.

 

[CurtisLow]

Rule #1
Don't believe everything you read!

 

[RonPaul4President]

It should be called Right Wingnut News.

 

[JaylieWoW]

LOL so true.

Of the whole thing the first statement:

"After they filtered out everyone who put Ron Paul in first place to get rid of the enormous number of spammers who hit the poll, the online GOP Straw Polls had more than 9,000 votes cast this month from all around the blogosphere."

Read it a couple of times and see if "filtered out EVERYONE" doesn't sound a bit like "deleted all who voted positively for..." It might have gone over on me if they'd actually published some specific spam numbers such as such and such votes from a single IP address. Not that it would have convinced me but honestly, read that sentence again and you will keep reading it as... deleted all positive Ron Paul votes. And, you see it again "enormous number of spammers" instead of enormous number of spam votes. Ok, here we go again, re read it again... ENORMOUS NUMBER OF SPAMMERS.... as in there WERE LOTS OF SPAMMERS, AN ENORMOUS NUMBER OF THEM!! (ROFLMAO!!)

::sigh::

I just don't understand what is so frightening about small government, really, I don't "get" it. On the one hand the call him crazy and on the other comedians and other MSM "talking heads" are repeatedly criticizing politicians for their failure to follow the constitution, yet when a CONSTITUTIONAL candidate is in the running they attack him. I just don't get it!

 

[lucky]

I see he consults for Duncan Hunter. He arbitrarily discarded Ron Paul votes saying that 95% are spammers. Wow. Talk about bias.

 

[singapore_sling]

Wow these people clearly don't even know what spam is or how to detect it. It sickens me how little these people understand about technology.

 

[Kandilynn]

Wait until next year when Ron Paul supporters "Spam" the republican primaries. I mean, they all show up an vote and there are WAY too many of them to be real supporters of Ron Paul.

 

[zMtLlC]

I see he consults for Duncan Hunter. He arbitrarily discarded Ron Paul votes saying that 95% are spammers. Wow. Talk about bias.

And, just so happens that Hunter is doing well in that poll, even though he doesn't have much support country-wide. Coincidence? I think not.

 

[Bob Cochran]

Note the statement at the bottom of that web page: "I consult for the Duncan Hunter campaign".

We shouldn't waste our energy getting riled by what this guy says.

 

[drinkbleach]

I see he consults for Duncan Hunter. He arbitrarily discarded Ron Paul votes saying that 95% are spammers. Wow. Talk about bias.

I consult for the Duncan Hunter campaign.

LOL, 95% are spammers? And why then are spammers so dedicated to Ron Paul? Seriously? Why can't they just acknowledge that Ron Paul has a huge internet following? Internet voters are more likely to be moderates who are tech savvy. These people don't form the base of either Reps or Dems and are therefore being treated as though we are irrelevent.

 

[specsaregood]

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[Bob Cochran]

Let all attempts to discredit or smear Ron Paul merely strengthen our resolve to get him elected.

 

[Scribbler de Stebbing]

So if I set up a poll with all the candidates, and filter out all votes BUT those for Ron Paul, my poll would be just as valid. Interesting new math concept.

 

[lynnf]

try this

I took the link to the GOP straw poll site that's on the Duncan Hunter
advocate's site, which got me here:

http://www.gopstrawpolls.com/pollresults.php

and I went up to upper right corner and selected May 2007-
here's what I got (not what the advocate got):

18515 ballots cast

First Choice:
Paul 8703 (47%)
F. Thompson 4077 (22%)
Romney 1955 (10.6%)
Giuliani 882 (4.8%)
Gingrich 606 (3.3%)
(none) 584 (3.2%)
Hunter 502 (2.7%)
Huckabee 397 (2.1%)
Tancredo 322 (1.7%)
Brownback 275 (1.5%)
McCain 150 (0.8%)
T. Thompson 38 (0.2%)
Gilmore 24 (0.1%)

Candidate acceptibility:

Brownback -6650 -35.9% 3738 (20.2%) 10388 (56.1%)
Gilmore -8953 -48.4% 2279 (12.3%) 11232 (60.7%)
Gingrich -3039 -16.4% 6165 (33.3%) 9204 (49.7%)
Giuliani -7446 -40.2% 4365 (23.6%) 11811 (63.8%)
Huckabee -2958 -16% 5586 (30.2%) 8544 (46.1%)
Hunter -2721 -14.7% 5735 (31%) 8456 (45.7%)
McCain -11361 -61.4% 2095 (11.3%) 13456 (72.7%)
Paul -709 -3.8% 6429 (34.7%) 7138 (38.6%)
Romney -1437 -7.8% 6906 (37.3%) 8343 (45.1%)
Tancredo -2682 -14.5% 5880 (31.8%) 8562 (46.2%)
F. Thompson 1369 +7.4% 7945 (42.9%) 6576 (35.5%)
T. Thompson -9221 -49.8% 2388 (12.9%) 11609 (62.7%)

 

[torchbearer]

I can see them dismissing ron paul's votes in the election as electronic voting fraud or something.

 

[billv]

Wait until next year when Ron Paul supporters "Spam" the republican primaries. I mean, they all show up an vote and there are WAY too many of them to be real supporters of Ron Paul.

Given the current state of the Republican Party, they'll discount 95% of Ron Paul votes as vote fraud.

 

[RPFever]

Take a look at the user comments!

I would strongly encourage you to take a look at some of the comments on that page. Many Ron Paul supporters - some imbeciles.

Take a look at this guy...

HUR-RAY!

Thank God you got rid of those Ron Paul spammers.

I must have voted for like 7 hours straight using all my proxy IP addresses (and some TOR addresses) just for Duncan Hunter to come out on top (though seems we got some Fred Thompson fans doing the same thing ).

Oh well, at least a REAL republican wins!

Posted by Montanamight
June 4, 2007 11:35 PM |

 

[romelll]

Rudi McRomnny

Huckleberry Toms

Duncan Hunter who? Is he on the same page as Gilmore with not even a pulse?

I would say that if this guy is an advisor for Duncan Hunter he better look for another job. As they say, you can prove anything with statistics.