Hahaha...Think somebody's been rigging this poll?

[Some Moran]

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/special/president/quickvote/vote.1.html

[goobergunch]

1. Now that's some serious Clarking (or whatever you want to call it). (n/t)

[Some Moran]

4. Some Deaning too...

But not as much...I like them both a lot more than I like people like Kerry, Holy Joe, and Gephardt.

I like Kucinich too, obviously.

I like Sharpton and Brown but don't take them very seriously. (Not because they're Black, but because they're always portrayed as being extremely marginal candidates.)

I'm not sure about Edwards...

[madfloridian]

15. Not as much, ha ha. 8% my foot.

:P

[pocoloco]

2. This isn't a suprise, and

it's one of the reasons I've been sleeping better lately!

[imax2268]

3. I find that hard to believe...

[CityZen-X]

5. Total Bu$h*t

Any polls that come from CNN, or FOX can be deemed as total Bu$h*t !

[madfloridian]

6. That poll is dated SEPT 23! What is it doing up there now?

Someone needs to find out why a poll would hang there so long. Do they stay on the site that long?

[Kahuna]

10. I remember that poll from a month ago.. Clark has ..

consisently held in the 90% range. Only a month ago, he was at 91% with the same number of votes that Dean has now.

You find it hard to believe that 1.6 mil internet users would respond this way? Why?

[madfloridian]

14. Today is Oct. 25, and Clark's numbers are nowhere like that now.

I am sorry, but I need a better explanation of the poll still being available. I just did a search at CNN, and I did not find others that old still working.

Hey, if Dean or anyone got that high a percentage I would be equally suspicious. So should you. So should we all.

[goobergunch]

17. Possibly because the entire national population is only 290 million

many of which do not have computers.

[Military Brat]

7. One vote per computer user, apparently

I voted, and then tried again, several times. It seemed to accept the subsequent votes; it didn't display a message "Sorry, you've already voted," but the number of votes tallied did not increase. So, perhaps it isn't rigged.

It isn't a vote for our preference, it's a vote for whom we think is most likely to beat bush. In the election, that's what we'll be faced with, anyway, if our preferred candidate is not the nominee. As for me, anybody but bush.

[goobergunch]

8. Welcome to DU, Military Brat

but I wouldn't be suprised if there was some script out there written by some rabid nerd rigging the poll....

[newyawker99]

20. Hi Military Brat!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Brucey]

9. That's very funny! How do so many people vote?

Anyway, a more interesting question: How the hell did Clark get so many people to think he is the best candidate before they even learned a thing about him? I think it is the "general" label. Americans, even liberals, are so awed by that. If you stick "General" in front of your name everyone thinks your some genius who will lay down the law to all your enemies. Americans are such suckers. Maybe Clark would be a winning candidate, but I am struck dumb once again by how quickly people jump to conclusions based on image alone. You can't seriously believe that millions of people are astute enough about politics and Clark to logically conclude that he would have the best chance to win. It has to be because he's a general.

[madfloridian]

18. Because it was a month ago?

Ha ha. Our legs are being pulled here. I am quite willing for someone to convince me it is accurate and real and all that. I am very open-minded.

[karlschneider]

11. Over 1.5 million for WC? Must be a Diebold machine involved...

;-)

[Kahuna]

12. Actually it's over 1.6 million..

:7

[madfloridian]

13. Here is a copy/paste without HTML Something is fishy.

Look at all the 0% figures.

Created: Tuesday, September 23, 2003, at 16:38:56 EDT
Which Democratic candidate has the best chance at defeating President Bush?

Carol Moseley Braun 0% 288 votes

Wesley Clark 92% 1636197 votes

Howard Dean 8% 136707 votes

John Edwards 0% 1135 votes

Dick Gephardt 0% 612 votes

Bob Graham 0% 191 votes

John Kerry 0% 1104 votes

Dennis Kucinich 0% 7757 votes

Joseph Lieberman 0% 475 votes

Al Sharpton 0% 491 votes
Total: 1784957 votes


This QuickVote is not scientific and reflects the opinions of only those Internet users who have chosen to participate. The results cannot be assumed to represent the opinions of Internet users in general, nor the public as a whole. The QuickVote sponsor is not responsible for content, functionality or the opinions expressed therein.

Who is the Quick Vote Sponsor. Why is this poll still available? CNN does not have polls this long.

[madfloridian]

16. Could Some Moran be pulling our legs?

:evilgrin:

[madfloridian]

19. Some Moran, could you explain more where you found this?

I just did a search at CNN and can't find it. I did a search for Sept 23 and could not find it. Maybe I am not searching correctly.

[Some Moran]

21. It's in the rock the vote section...

They have stuff about the primary there, including one discussing different primaries, different candidates, and different candidate attributes.

[madfloridian]

22. Thanks, found it.

From Sept. 22, the day before the aforementioned poll.

President virtually tied with five Democratic challengers

Here is a poll mentioned in an article there the day before. I did not see one about that poll, and that is one reason I wondered. The numbers are just so far off.

From the above article:
SNIP...."Clark, the retired general who announced last week that he would seek the Democratic presidential nomination, emerged to lead all the Democrats by at least 9 percentage points.

Of the 423 registered Democrats or Democratic-leaning voters questioned in the poll, 22 percent said they would most likely support Clark in 2004...."

These figures put Clark ahead on September 22 and sound more realistic. It looks like that other poll had some problems. I will look again and see if there is an article about Sept. 23 one.

On Edit:
I don't think the poll numbers ever changed. Must be out of date.