Yes – online polls are not polls
I don’t know if the Markell supporter from last week was trying to make a point about online polls, or KWS is still nursing hurt feelings from being smacked down in the Insurance Commissioner primary a few cycles back… but someone made a mockery out of the Denn poll that was up.
Congratulations (I guess) to the anonymous internet genius out there who pulled it off.
It’s my fault really. I left that poll up too long. In the middle of the week it had accurate results, with Denn in the high 50’s.
Is the poll cookie-based? I thought it was IP-based. If it’s IP based it actually takes one person for every vote, unless they know how to change their IP address which is not common knowledge. I have my browser set to clear all cookies every time it is closed.
Puck – there’s about a thousand proxy server sites out there that will redirect your IP address for free. Let’s not make DL out to be Ft. Knox.
Yeah, if DL was Fort Knox well the progressives would be printing money and storing it. 🙂
DD, I missed seeing the “final” results of the Denn poll, and while I think we can agree that these online surveys are not a statistically accurate sampling, I am wondering whether there’s any analytical basis for your stating that midweek the poll “had accurate results, with Denn in the high 50s.”
Is “the high 50s” a real measure of Denn’s popularity, or is that vicinity merely where you think it should be or would like it to be?
Another thought occurs – why is this one “payback” and the other one legit? Confirmation bias 🙂
Possible that someone is spamming *all* the polls…