Ohhhh...So THAT'S how polls get "Freeped"...

[BiggJawn]

got this in my email just now...

Subject: Supporting the President on marriage



CNN is trying to prove the President wrong on his anti-gay-marriage stand
... and we are losing 2-1. If this concerns you, go to the site below ...
follow your conscience ... and VOTE. Then forward it on to all your
friends, because this poll will be used by CNN to show how "out of date" the
President is in his beliefs.

CNN Poll asks: Should marriage be legally defined as only a union between a
man and a woman?

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/07/30/bush.gay.marriage/index.html

Well, I went there, and We're NOT losing "2 to 1"...In fact, the "No" votes have a slight edge...
at least i THINK that's what the person who fowarded me this meant...

Oh! You don't suppose they were trying to tell me that the "yes" voters were losing, do you? :evilgrin:

Never mind that CNN isn't trying to "prove" anything, they're just putting this poll up. It's the respondents who are trying to "prove" something, and what they're proving is that they're comfy with the idea of not making it an exclusive thing anymore....

Besides, Chimpy is doing a fine job of presenting his own "proofs" he don' need no steenkeen CNN to help him...

[T Roosevelt]

1. Amazing

That poll has over 1.5 million votes...

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. Wow! I've never seen a CNN poll with anywhere near

that many votes. In the low 100Ks, maybe, but never anything that high.

And that there are so many votes AND coming down on the "no" side gives me some hope for America.

[AndyTiedye]

5. Dragging Down CNN's Server

never seen it so slow

[arcane1]

6. amazing that gayness is apparently the #1 concern right now

ah, love, how hated it is...

hey freepers, why not obsess over something that MATTERS??? Geez, we have doors on our bedrooms for a reason, you know

meanwhile, children starve, are abused, sickened, etc.... where are the 1 million responses to THAT????

or are they all brown, gay kids? :shrug:

[zbdent]

3. Hey, isn't there a way to get the link over so that

by clicking on the link, you actually are hitting one vote or another, not to the page with the poll?

That would be fun to send over to the dark side and say

"This poll asks if Hillary's book is worth buying. Vote no in the poll" and have the link actually hit the Yes button.

[mike6640]

4. hmmm

Let's just agree that the "other side" uses freeper tactics to skew online polls, and not allow ouselves to stoop to a lower level.

[SoCalDem]

7. This is the link I send to media ..It proves the stupidity of their polls

http://www.oreilly-sucks.com/News/freeperlies.htm