Loren Pechtel

Doesn't matter. Any poll in which you go to the site and vote means *NOTHING*.

fando

Loren is right, you have to be suspicious about online polls. They aren't and can't be representative of the domestic opinion. I bet a whole lot of non-U.S. folk voted in that poll, which would easily give it an anti-Bush flavor.

peacenik

I have been suspicious of all the polls put forward by the corporate media lately. For example, their polls showed that Bush's unjustified slaughter of innocent Iraqi civilians was justified(I am sick of sugar coating what actually happened in Iraq); however, these polls have not matched up with what my personal experience has been when talking with people even in the very conservative city of Knoxville, TN where it seems that more people that I have talked with, including many Republicans who I have argued with on many occasions, opposed this war from the start. However, for some reason, the true feelings of people are not getting through in the "scientific" polls posted by the corporate media networks. Instead all you hear about is how Bush's approval ratings are soaring despite the economy(which has "been set to recover now for 2 years according to the experts paid by these laughable "news" or should I say "propoganda" network) and the Laci Peterson murder trial(which should absolutely not be a national news story; they hyped it up to specifically draw attention from the chaos in Iraq including the squalid conditions that the "liberated" Iraqis are living in as well as the fact that about 1 U.S. soldier a day is being sent home in a body bag. ).

To be honest, I trust CNN's online poll more than I trust their "scientific" polls, which I truly believe have been rigged.(Please note that I am not arguing that online polls are anywhere close to scientifically correct; they're not. I just expressing my view that they must be rigging their actual "scientific" polls to skew the results to fit an idealogy that best suits their purposes). Call me a conspiracy theorist if you like, but after seeing things like headlines that would be devestating to the Theif in Chief taken down just minutes after being posted as well as the failure of CNN, Faux, and the other U.S. corporate owned and operated media conglemerates to report on the truth about what is happening in Iraq under occupation like the story linked below, and instead focus on made up stories like the "rescue" of Private Jessica Lynch, I wouldn't put anything past the Corporate News Network, Faux, and the other conglomerates.

Stories that you won't find on the U.S. corporate media conglomerates:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2986962.stm

http://xymphora.blogspot.com/

Ronin

...except to those Americans hopelessly shepherded by the media...now it makes all the difference in the world.

Loren Pechtel

No. It's not that you need to be suspicious, it's that you should totally disregard them--as you do *ANY* self-selected poll.

Farren

I was wondering about that. I didn't vote because it would screw with the representation of US views, then realised it was absurd. I've little doubt lots of non-US citizens voted.

Well if it hasn't been spammed over and over by the same people, its a pretty good indication of what the rest of the world thinks of the Bush administration (not necessarily the US). Just get your asses off to the polling booths next time and give us another Clinton please.

fando

Well, only if the poll claims to be serious. The polls on slashdot are fun and interesting despite their 'unscientific' nature and poor span of choices. If Gallup Poll starts profiling the internet population, we can laugh at them.

Hubble head

Classic.

Just voted and it was up to 93% Bush's fault. I wonder how/if they'll decide to use it.

dcwolf

If you missed Wolf's 'will Bush be re-elected' poll these are the results as of 7/1.
Now that we're talking about Blitzer, here's a portion of an interview Blitzer did with Frum that I thought was pretty funny.
:boohoo: