Kerry ahead in Online Gaming Polls

[Nicholas_J]

Vote With Your Wallet!

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- With the reliability of Gallup polls
in question, Sports Interaction is offering another way to poll voters, by
running their own bet on who will win this year's Presidential election.
Currently, 60% have bet on John Kerry to win, even though 59% have also bet on
George W. Bush to win swing state Florida.

Sports Interaction's presidential wager offers several ways to participate
in the election. The online sportsbook allows users to bet on the winner, how
many states will go to Bush, and who will win the key states. You can also
wager if a Supreme Court intervention will impact the election or if a
candidate will withdraw.

"No one knows what to believe anymore," says Ruth Purcell of Sports
Interaction. "There are so many arguments about the polls being skewed to one
candidate or another, we thought the only real way to measure is to have
people put their money on the line. We don't pretend this in an exact science,
but at least it's another way of looking at what candidate people are
favoring."

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/10-20-2004/0002289770&EDATE=

Another one if the out of the ordinary polls that show Kerry winning.

Others like the Nickoldeon poll of 400,000 children have Kerry winning by close to the same margin as the betting poll.

This poll has been accurate for the last 4 elections.

Another even stranger poll that has been accurage for the last 8 elections that has Kerry winning is the dollar amount invested in campaign buttons for each candidate, buy this poll again, Kerry is winning by about 60 percent as well.

ON a less unsual note, the latest Ipsos Cook poll has Kerry ahead of Bush by three points.

[kostya]

1. In what way has Nickoldeon poll been accurate in the past?

By just who won or also by margin? - K

:dem:

[Nicholas_J]

2. Just read the report on this poll

Which stated that the Nickolodeon poll has accurately predicted the presidential election for the last 4 presidential elections. They gave no breakdowns of their past polls, jst said that for every election their poll of kids has predicted the winner everytime.

Which is not unusual when you think of it. Kids are probably repeating what they hear at home and transmitting it to the poll

This is what it said:

Sen. John Kerry Defeats President George W. Bush in Nickelodeon's 'Kids'
Vote': 57% to 43%
Wednesday October 20, 12:20 pm ET

Kids Have Correctly Picked Winner of the General Election for Last Four
Presidential Campaigns Through Net's National Poll Where Kids Pick Their
Choice For President

Nick Encourages Kids to Motivate Parents to Vote on Nov. 2 with 'Nag The Vote'
Campaign
NEW YORK, Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Senator John Kerry has been declared
the winner of Nickelodeon's "Kids' Vote" according to kids nationwide who
exercised their voting power in the network's presidential poll held online Oct.
19. Nickelodeon has held a "Kids' Vote" every election year since 1988, and
kids have correctly predicted the winner of the general elections for the last four
U.S. presidential campaigns.