[The Nashua Advocate] 2008 Final 4: Gore, Obama, Conyers, Dean [VOTE NOW]

[nashuaadvocate]

It's finally, here, folks: the Final Four of The Nashua Advocate's Presidential May Madness Poll.

The final candidates for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, after several weeks of voting and not a few major upsets/controversies, are Al Gore, Barack Obama, John Conyers, and Howard Dean.

Cast your votes here, and we hope you'll discuss your vote in this thread!

In the Elite Eight action just concluded, General Wesley Clark was disqualified from the Poll, Hillay Clinton was defeated, and top African-American pols Obama and Conyers moved one step closer to a monumental Senate/House blockbuster match-up in the final contest!

Phew!

Best wishes to all, and vote wisely,

The News Editor
The Nashua Advocate
Nashua, NH


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[pennylane100]

1. What a great site

Just voted for Al Gore and Howard.

Not sure who I will vote for if they both win. But what a wonderful choice.

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[kevsand]

7. Wrong forum for this.

This forum is for discussion of 2004. Your poll is for 2008. Please move to a more appropriate area of DU so that everyone who's interested in 2008 can see what you're saying.

[sharonking21]

8. I am posting here what I posted on your locked thread

If you cannot devise a way to count votes without discarding valid votes and entire candidacies, you have no business calling your site an election reform site. Such methods of counting are pure quackery and would be scorned by any election judge.

Readers please note--I believe this is part of a smear campaign.

[Adelante]

9. Politics & Issues Forums 2004 Election Results and Discussion

Sneaky, sneaky.

[FrenchieCat]

10. Since this is a "Dupe" thread, I will duplicate the comment I made

on the locked thread in regard to this poll:

Based on my experience, the poll being advertised here is not a bonafide actual poll, as votes are dealt with in a manner reminiscent of the 2000 Florida election under the supervision of Katherine Harris...where only certain votes counted, and others just didn't.

Actually Florida had a better system of voting. At least there...when they found overvotes, instead of throwing out all Gore votes, or disqualifying Gore from the race, they only threw out the overvotes. In this poll, they also throw out the candidate.

A site, where they set up New Rule!in the middle of the voting....rules not mentioned when they solicite for email addresses advertising said poll:

New Rule! Multiple computers on one router (like say...at an office) will count only as one vote, no matter how many email accounts or how many employees.

New Rule! Family members all have to confer and decide who will get the household's one vote, even if they all have separate email accounts. That includes families of twos, threes, fours, etc... Also includes roomates, etc., etc.

New Rule! Instead of throwing out the "alleged" double votes, simply throw out the candidate.

New Rule! If a website is an election reform website, please do not question it's integrity or vote count methods or anything else.

New Rule! Just give them your email address and shut up about it. Get out of line after they disqualify your candidate and they will publish your name and your email address on the internet (that you provided to them in confidence) for all to see. If this happens, don't whine, just deal with it.

New Rule! If you're accused of cheating, just get over it! Complaining or asking for evidence or proof just makes you a "sore" loser.

New Rule! According to this site, modeled after a GOP site, there is no such thing as perfect democracy. Grow up, learn to live it with, or go directly to hell.

New Rule! This poll is fixed so that Howard Dean and Al Gore will be the only competitors left standing. Even if both individuals have said that they are not running in 2008, Learn to like this result.

[mhl6277]

11. this would also be the result if the question were

who actually has balls in the party. boxer would have to be on that list as well.

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[ClarkUSA]

13. Clark was disqualified in order to skew the poll towards 2 candidates

For more details on how this was accomplished, see dupe thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3618973

[dogman]

14. Here we thought only the other people rigged polls.

Hope you get the results you've arranged to get.

[nashuaadvocate]

15. To Moderator...

...the irony is, I posted the other post in this discussion forum (the one you locked; see below, on the first page of topics) in order to remove the allegedly inflammatory language which got the post locked elsewhere. And now I'm being skewered for posting inflammatory material here, when my intention was to post harmlessly and non-controversially!

So, I'd ask that folks interested simply in the Poll, and not the issues surrounding the Poll, visit the other thread titled identically to this one (below), so that they can find the voting instructions for the Poll. The post which begins this thread does not have that information, and contains material I'd hoped to delete from my posting in this forum.

-- TNE

[Moderator]

16. Locking

Degenerated into flame war, please continue discussion, sans flames, here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=108&topic_id=120974#120996