Kind of bad poll, thought you all should see

[Guaranteed]

AOL's doing a poll on Nagin.

http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050920093009990001&ncid=NWS00010000000001

Of course, it's focused on Nagin. As if he had anything to do with anything regarding the outcome of Katrina.

But, here are the results of the poll:

How would you rate Nagin's handling of the Katrina disaster?

Poor 65%
Good 13%
Fair 12%
Excellent 10%

Who's done a better job during the crisis?

President Bush 68%
Mayor Nagin 32%

Total Votes: 521,105

RW radio and Faux News have done their job once more.

What was it that Ann Coulter said? Something about blowing up the NY Times?

Yeah. I can feel something similar to that.

[blossomstar]

1. they had to come up with some kind of poll to make chimpy look good

[in_cog_ni_to]

2. That's just ridiculous. That's AOL for ya. The freepers must be

out in full force.

[bluestateguy]

3. I wonder if Nagin could cancel the mayoral election in February

This is a time of crisis, and we can't be second guessing our leaders.


Just kidding.

[Verve]

4. How is Ann the Man Coulter? I'm shocked we haven't heard any

vulgar racists comments about Katrina spewing from her mouth.

[Brother Buzz]

5. Let's get down to brass facts....

Any poll at this time doesn't mean squat. When more of the real facts come to light, and the RW spin machine has run out of fodder, the polls might reflect a different tally. I'm just saying...

[demgrrrll]

6. Why? I don't read the AOL Polls or the Weekly World News.

Speaking of the WWN has Bat Boy weighed in on Bush's performance? How about the Space Alien? He was behind Bush around the elections, surely he must have some thoughts about his current situation. I give AOL polls and the WWN about the same weight in terms of relevance and veracity. What I am really curious about is why you thought anyone should go out of their way to read this.

[bluedawg12]

7. Faux poll : " Who did better Katrina or Shrub?

I mean if you fish around enough you will get a Frank Lunzt answer.

[crispini]

8. Well, why not VOTE.

Bush just lost a point.

How would you rate Nagin's handling of the Katrina disaster?
Poor 65%
Good 13%
Fair 12%
Excellent 10%
Who's done a better job during the crisis?
President Bush 67%
Mayor Nagin 33%
Total Votes: 529,713
Note on Poll Results

[rodeodance]

10. kick

[Erika]

9. Get real. A vote button doesn't even exist

It appears AOL is tracking preferences and eliminating voting ability for those who don't agree with them.

[crispini]

11. I just voted in the poll.

:shrug:

[rodeodance]

13. so did I. come on folks, lets GO. Bush 67% !! eeks!

How would you rate Nagin's handling of the Katrina disaster?
Poor 65%
Good 13%
Fair 12%
Excellent 10%

Who's done a better job during the crisis?
President Bush 67%
Mayor Nagin 33%

[Erika]

15. I'm posting from aol and the button does not exist

It shows the first half and only the Mayor on the 2nd half. Since I've told AOL off before, I suspect they are interfering. Or what else would be the problem?

[rodeodance]

17. that only happens once people have voted.

[Erika]

21. I never got the button to vote

[Erika]

24. I just got an AOL Message that an error occured

Duh, I was never given a vote button.

[2bfree]

12. No way is Bush getting 68% favorable for anything.

I have no idea of what people think of Nagin, I'm mixed myself but all of the major polls have Bush tanking.

[rodeodance]

14. nominated

[rodeodance]

16. total Votes: 535,373

[rodeodance]

18. ghostly, now the poll is gone from the website when I click on the initial

post link.

[WilliamPitt]

19. You see this as some kind of indictment of Americans?

This is an online poll getting freeped. Utterly, utterly, utterly meaningless.

Have you see George's numbers from AP, Gallup, etc. not-online polls?

40%. Across the board.

That's the number you need to focus on. This poll you reference is garbage.

[KingFlorez]

20. The poll doesn't matter

Nagin has offered good leadership for his city's people during this disaster and Bush has not. Plus, Nagin is not the President so putting him up against Bush is not relevent.

[tigera2001]

22. Yeah, but it's AOL...

I've had suspicions that the freepers camped out on AOL polls ever since "the people" voted Ronald Reagan as "The Greatest American" (that Discovery Channel special that aired a few months back). What's even more suspicious is that Chimpy was ranked SIXTH on the list (ahead of monumental figures like FDR, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Edison, etc). Even Laura Bush made the top 100. So yeah, I've figured that the repukes have hijacked AOL polls, and now I have more evidence.

As a side note, it doesn't take very many people to rig an online poll like this. All it takes is about a hundred people running to every computer in their workplace, school, library, whatever, and voting on every single one of them (and we all know a few repukes who'd do just that).

[newyawker99]

32. Hi tigera2001!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[drfresh]

23. I knew AOL was full of lamers, but this is ridiculous

Just voted. Seems we knocked Bush down 1% :P

[Guaranteed]

25. Sorry, haven't been tending to this, was caught up with a

bunch of bullshit in another thread.

But, yeah, as you can see, here's...just more bullshit.

[applegrove]

26. You can vote again and again at that poll. They are not vetting the

responders by email address. It is not scientific in the least.

[Quixote1818]

27. My gut feeling is that Bush is winning ONLY because he is White

and all the O'Reilly/Archie Bunker types who don't even have ONE fact are just looking at Mayor Nagins photo and voting against him thinking he is still on welfare.

[Guaranteed]

29. I think that's it. nt

[Guaranteed]

30. That, and that people are pissed all around about what happened.

It's hard to explain those second numbers, though.

[ISUGRADIA]

28. Freakin' PUSH POLL non-scientific Crap

My stat prof would have given them and F!

"He chastised the president on the radio. He criticized his state's governor on TV. And he reopened part of New Orleans against the wishes of the federal government, only to reverse his decision with the threat of Hurricane Rita. Some see Mayor Ray Nagin as a bold leader, while others think he's in over his head. What do you think?"

Right question is "How would you rate Nagin's handling of the Katrina disaster?" alone without any prompting.

[crispini]

31. true. still, let's DU it.

[ISUGRADIA]

34. Agreed, I have voted already

[rasputin1952]

33. bush's approval rating havs dropped to 38%, nothing he does

can bring that back up. He is a complete failure once again.

As an addendum, Nagin was essentially out of the picture once bush declared NO as a disaster area. Nagin could have walked on water, but the Fed's had the ball in their court. They are working the 'blame game'.

[KakistocracyHater]

35. awful

& I voted too