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RKP5637 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-11 10:54 PM
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Does topix.com rig polls? Here when you vote for Obama, Perry registers the vote, not Obama.
I don't trust it. http://www.topix.com
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Ohio Joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-11 11:03 PM
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1. Bad site. Setting off all my PC protection software
I do not recommend going to the link in the OP.
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RKP5637 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-11 11:09 PM
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2. Yeah, there's something weird going on with their polling software.
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Marie Marie Donating Member (709 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-11 11:11 PM
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3. I went on a local branch of that site and all I saw was a bunch of threads
written by right-wingers and Obama bashers. It was scary.
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RKP5637 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-11 11:16 PM
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4. I think it must be a RW site. n/t
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saras Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-27-11 12:07 AM
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5. Don't know about trust, but they're saturated with rightwing comments and recycled news articles
I wasn't going to enable scripts there, so I couldn't take a poll, but their 'poll' showed my deep dark blue home going 3:1 for Perry, and Bachmann ahead of Obama. Silly twithood.
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RKP5637 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-27-11 05:43 AM
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6. Their vote counting software works strangely IMO. Each time you open your
browser it allows you to vote again (my cookies clear when I restart). So I voted for Obama and it automatically racked up two votes for Perry. I tried it a couple of times and same thing happened. Also, here, there were some votes for Bachmann (Ugh), but then they magically disappeared and Perry had more votes. It seems erratic.
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