Changing thread name to All is lost and we can't win... becasue we give up

[stop the bleeding]

so easily...


was titled:

80,000 ++ registered users on DU / Freeps R cleaning our clocks on 3 polls
that are listed right here in the General discussion.

had to change it because people are feeling defeated - so fuck it.... what is the point?!!?!?!

That is pathetic, :argh::argh::argh::argh::argh::argh:

and for all of those whiners out there that do not think this will help neither will whining and doing nothing.:argh::argh::argh:

Will update with links to other threads in a second.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5636811
or www.cnn.com

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5636671
or http://www.capitalnews.org /


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5636273
or http://www.foxnews.com/business/index.html#poll

AOL Poll on wiretaps
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5637276
http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20051218174109990002

another one that is being freeped.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=5637185&mesg_id=5637435
http://www.bradmesser.com/

:argh::argh::argh::argh::argh:

[OregonBlue]

1. And forward to everyone in your contacts!

[bluedog]

2. well, these polls that can be haked mean "nil.zero.nada"

[RareLubbockDem]

3. done EOM

[stop the bleeding]

4. we are still getting our asses handed to us - WTF

[eyesroll]

5. How does packing a nonscientific Internet poll change anything?

Who cares? These things don't get read or reported on to anyone but political junkies. They're not treated as factual. The front page of USATODAY doesn't report what the CNN Online instapoll said.

If it makes you feel better, then do it -- it won't hurt anything -- but who cares if some meaningless Internet poll gets freeped? If this is "pathetic" to you, I'd hate to see what happens when things that count don't go your way.

Maybe DUers aren't un-freeping polls because they're actually DOING SOMETHING PRODUCTIVE.

[Warpy]

7. What Eyesroll said

Everybody knows these are just feel good polls, completely unscientific polls with no meaning out in the real world.

Don't take it all so seriously. Go out. Take verbal swipes against Bush wherever you go. Let other people know that being against the little bastard is an OK thing to be.

[stop the bleeding]

9. DUers are more than capable of doing both, BTW how do you think

the mindless MSM gets a feel for what Americans are thinking?????


Polls are reported to someone - who I don't know

But to think that all is lost in a vacum is called: giving up

Either way as said before DUers are more than talented enough to unfreep a poll and to work on other fronts as well.

[eyesroll]

16. Real polls are reported. Internet polls are not.

If they are, they're reported in the same breath as the polls that ask whether you're baking or buying your Christmas cookies this year, complete with "not scientific" disclaimer and sing-song presentation.

Excuse me if my involvment in the Democratic Party, Democracy for America, Drinking Liberally, FightingBob.com and my own site isn't enough. I don't do internet polls. I guess I've given up.

[stop the bleeding]

17. your excused, and you obviously have had enough time to get

away to make 2 comments on this thread......

[eyesroll]

19. Arguing is more fun.

Sure, I have TIME to unfreep polls. I just think it's a waste of time.

OK, it's a bigger waste of time than arguing (I'll grant you that arguing isn't exactly productive either), and less entertaining.

[stop the bleeding]

23. eyesroll - your too funny.. shoot me the links to your web site

so that I can stop wasting my time on arguing and defreeping and do some useful research and thank you in advance for any work that you have contributed to keeping Democracy intact.

and BTW it is always fun to know that we are on the same team:patriot::patriot:

[SoCalDem]

10. Bingo.. "Unfreeping" internet polls is like a 7th grade "book-drop"

at 1 pm sharp ...

Freeps (some of 'em) have programs that "auto-vote" hundreds of times.. I have better things to do that monitor a Boise Idaho newspaper poll or Lou Dobbs' slanted "question of the day" poll.:hi:

[TallahasseeGrannie]

29. I don't think anyone takes these polls too seriously

[insane_cratic_gal]

6. where do you think they get their poll

info from?

They get it from US and when we post the polls they go straight to them and call in the sheep!

Plus you can clear cookies and your vote is counted as many times as you have the patience for.

[jus_the_facts]

8. that number includes freepers who've registered here too....

...they have never taken tombstoned people off that list...so actually there aren't 80,000 active registered here...but they can still click the links and vote in every poll that's posted on DU regardless.

[stop the bleeding]

11. even if it was 20,000 we should be killing them in this. n/t

[cry baby]

12. they probably set one or two of their "bots" on them.

That is what they did to Rep. Murtha's poll.

[wicket]

13. done

[Media_Lies_Daily]

14. Well, you got one correct out of three polls....

CNN poll: 59-41 No

Capital News poll: 54-46 No

===============================

Fox News poll: 67-30-3 Yes....what did you expect to see in a Fox News poll?

[cry baby]

18. those "no" numbers are going down - quickly nt

[helderheid]

15. K & R

[Walt Starr]

20. Really, these "polls" lost all meaning after the one time they were

successfully used to muddy an issue during the 2000 recount. A freeped poll was cited by Bob Novak on CNN as if it were a real poll, but otherwise, tehy are pretty useless.

[The Stranger]

21. Let it bleed.

[wwwdothello]

22. Boo Hoo...

Stop your whining.

dot

[cry baby]

24. ?? - not whining...angry.

[stop the bleeding]

25. thank you

and I sent an alert to admin..

[cry baby]

26. me too

I just don't feel like playing today. I stayed up all night with cspan.

[stop the bleeding]

27. I tried to find

www.dothello - but it does not go anywhere - any luck???

[cry baby]

28. didn't even look...I'm running on only one cylinder.

[newyawker99]

33. Hi wwwdothello!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[porphyrian]

30. Polls are statistical masturbation.

They allow people to ignore what's happening outside of their boardroom or den. Polls will not remove these traitors from power. Polls will not save our economy. Polls will not save our soldiers or Iraqi citizens. Especially not internet polls.

Opinion is useless without action. Clicking buttons on websites that profit from your participation does nothing but pay someone else's rent. So, who gives a shit whether people "DU" a poll or not? What are they doing in the real world to save America?

[in_cog_ni_to]

31. I already voted in the CNN, Capital News and AOL polls...didn't see the

other 2.


How do you feel now about President Bush's actions and decisions on the war, regard for Constitutional law, and protection of Americans' civil and privacy rights? <272 votes total>


Pretty positive (60) 22%
Don't feel much either way (13) 5%
Pretty negative (199) 73%


FAUX NEWS viewers are just pathetic.:puke:

Do you think President Bush's Sunday night address to the nation will improve his approval ratings?

a. Yes (67%)
4,862


b. No (30%)
2,222


c. Not sure (3%)
231


7,315 total votes

[flyarm]

32. for days now i have not been able to vote on cnn is it happening to

anyone else??

the page comes up..they yes and no are there but there are no little circles to click on to vote...it has been like this for days for me..so are they playing with their polls?? i bet they are...as this has been at least a week i have not been able to vote!!

fly

[lpbk2713]

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