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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Iowa State Fair 2015 : Presidential Poll [View all]totodeinhere
(13,059 posts)70. Nobody including me called it a scientific poll.
But it is a poll, scientific or not.
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Right wingers are supposed to be the smart guys in the room? Forget that noise.
Ed Suspicious
Aug 2015
#54
Maybe it's a case of running against the one you know rather than the one you
libdem4life
Aug 2015
#65
It was an unscientific "poll" taken at a State Fair booth run by Republican SoS Paul Pate.....folks used their IPads...
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#39
The Iowa State Fair Corn Poll *snicker* is for bragging rights, everyone knows it should only be used to
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#64
Good News - No Citizen Need Settle For The Lesser Of Two Corporate Evils - Go Bernie Go
cantbeserious
Aug 2015
#2
That’s a nice gain for Sanders, who was tied with Clinton at 46 percent after Friday, the
totodeinhere
Aug 2015
#4
What is more newsworthy, a picture of Hillary on a website that has been shilling for her since
totodeinhere
Aug 2015
#12
What is this? Maybe I should have put in the word...Yet...It was a comparison
libdem4life
Aug 2015
#15
I wasn't offended. I was reacting to HuffPost's putting Hillary's picture on, not to you
totodeinhere
Aug 2015
#18
It is not a poll...your whole argument is underpined by a "polling booth" at a State fair run by one Republican.
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#50
The OP calls it a poll and the Iowa Secretary of State website calls it a poll.
totodeinhere
Aug 2015
#68
The level of clinging to magical thinking for some folks at DU is deeper than I suspected.
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#69
I have a red pill that cures cancer. It is not scientific, but everyone knows science sucks!
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#75
I dislike being repetitive, but my point is that Trump is not "Beholden"...
libdem4life
Aug 2015
#33
"he is beholden to his own interests...surely not The People" Your right. Not The (rich) People.
L0oniX
Aug 2015
#35
The important thing to take out of this is Bernie has substantial lead over Clinton.
totodeinhere
Aug 2015
#14
Nobody said it did. But Bernie is beating Hillary in this poll. And the people
totodeinhere
Aug 2015
#17
No, that's a different poll. You are referring to the Iowa straw poll held by the Republicans
totodeinhere
Aug 2015
#21
Oh so you're refering to the poll that also measures people's favorite way to eat bacon.
One of the 99
Aug 2015
#26
But that's not the point. You tried to make it seem that yesterday's poll was the
totodeinhere
Aug 2015
#67
Also smoke. It is done with smoke and mirrors, and it obviously works.....
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#44
The Corn Poll is another separate poll from the Pate IPad Booth Poll and the defunct GOP Iowa Straw Poll.
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#45
A scientific poll is a scientific poll and anything not scientific is unscientific and worthless....
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#51
Then you don't know anything about me. Regardless of who won, the poll is silly
Godhumor
Aug 2015
#55
It's "fun" and worthy of bragging rights, but that's about it. It is a meaningless unscientific poll
Metric System
Aug 2015
#56
Magical thinking does make folks feel better......take that thinking away and there goes the feeling.
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#76
I already pointed that out....and other true things some folks vehemently refuse to believe exist.
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#49
Yes, thank you for correcting our ignorant belief that this meant Bernie had won the election.
Live and Learn
Aug 2015
#58
Are you trying to say Trump voters getting back in line to vote for Sanders...
NCTraveler
Aug 2015
#74
Scientific poll versus corn kernels in a jar poll...same thing, aren't they? They are both called polls!
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#77
The corn kernels in a jar pole also had Sanders ahead...so I agree...corn kernels rule, scientists suck!
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#78
Scientific poll and the corn kernels in a jar pole, let us do a scientific compaison of the results?!
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#80
I am a douche! Yes, I am, no doubt. The biggest around! A douch bag fighting the silly is what I do.
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#83
That's not a realistic presentation of the votes - there are separate votes...
George II
Aug 2015
#82