CNN poll being FREEPed?

[Kazak]

All of a sudden, it's awfully close...

http://www.cnn.com

[Shopaholic]

1. Looks like it has been

yes.

[clydefrand]

2. Did anyone else try to vote last night on CNN and get

nothing for each choice when you clicked on Submit Vote or Vote...? I did several times, thinking that I had done something wrong. Same results each time. Zilch!

[0007]

3. It has been freeped, the hourly numbers don't jive.

Also they went wennamuck for their own FAUX earler.

[seraph]

4. CNN is distorting the results. (nt)

[AmerDem]

5. Done

Who won the second presidential debate?

President Bush 48%
457102 votes

John Kerry 50%
480867 votes

Evenly matched 2%
20850 votes


Total: 958819 votes

[napi21]

6. WOW! 50% Kerry 48% Shrub

I suspect they're putting this up now because few people are paying attention.

[mhr]

7. Definitely Freeped - Changed While I Voted

They are attacking it big time.

[leftofthedial]

8. now even at 49

350,000 votes for the little bushturd in a few hours?

[wildeyed]

9. yep, 49-49 n/t

[BMJ]

10. 50/48 - BUSH now... BAH!

[warrior1]

11. That really very sad

freeping shit don't make it so, their chimp lost and they know it.

[Duncan Grant]

12. * now beating Kerry. 51% - 49% eom

[fear the donkey]

13. Changing poll to fit headline

They've been running the headline that has basically said the debate was a tie but the polls results had Kerry waaaay out in front. Now, all of a sudden, the gap is closing?

[fear the donkey]

16. Kerry still up on MSNBC.com

[newyawker99]

35. Hi fear the donkey!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[goodboy]

14. kerry behind....kick

[Awsi Dooger]

15. They freep while we sleep

Still 50 -48 Bush but headed sharply away from us, Bush up by 24,000+ votes.

The strategy is obvious. You've got Capital Gang later today and all the Sunday shows tomorrow. If this poll looks legit CNN will begin quoting it on air, no doubt enthusiastically if Bush is ahead.

[MidwestTransplant]

17. That's an insane amount of votes

Maybe the RNC emailed to vote. That's an insance number of votes in a few minutes.

[Steelangel]

18. They are using some kind of bot

no doubt on that.. too many in only few hours, that does not sound right. *shrugs* let them be, all of us already know that they are hardcore crybabies.

[girl gone mad]

27. As usual, the only way they can win..

is to cheat.

[funky_bug]

19. Heavily Freeped... Kerry was running away with it just this morning

Still needs help!

[djg21]

25. Fuck 'em.

It's too late for the Freepulsives.

MSNBC already mentioned Kerry's lead in its online poll this morning during its newscasts. The CW is that Kerry won the debate and Shrub can't control his temper.

I've even heard pundits referring to the upcoming Wednesday debate as Shrub's "last chance."

The on-line polls can say whatever they want two days later, when no-one cares any longer.

[sherilocks]

20. Chances are CNN freeped it themselves 48% Kerry

They've been showing clips of the debate; of course picking out the best clips of * . Anybody see a flip-out clip? I couldn't watch the whole thing.

[devinsgram]

21. done

[MsMagnificent]

22. Kerry 47%, Bush 51! *kick*

[ScreamingMeemie]

23. It went from Kerry 79% to Bush leading in a ten minute time span...

I don't think it's been freeped. I think CNN has changed it to fit their needs.

[Kazak]

28. Weak!

:eyes:

[lasttrip]

31. cnn will be in for a rude awakening when JK

overhauls the FCC.

[Psst_Im_Not_Here]

24. Yep

Kick

[DaveinMD]

26. some Republican

probably infected the poll with some type of script.

[bush equals idiot]

32. 52-46 *

[Kimber Scott]

29. Bush 57, Kerry 41 nt

[AmerDem]

30. CNN is rigging this poll to match the article

No doubt about it!

[Kazak]

33. Hmmm...odd.

In this one, Kerry still up big.

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/

George W. Bush 14% 10519 votes

John Kerry 85% 66338 votes

Evenly matched 1% 1043 votes

:eyes:

[requiem99]

34. Botting this sort of thing is not at all hard.

All you need to really destroy this poll is a few computers running a proxy hopper with a script to load the CNN page and execute the proper command to vote in the poll the way they desire. I could easily create a bot that does this in a matter of an hour or 2, less depending on circumstances, but whats the point of democracy in action if everything is bullshit?

I will not stoop to their level, even to win. We'll win fairly, because we are better than they are, and if the honest side can't win in this election, the American people deserve to be fucked in the ass and see their country collapse.

[StrongbadTehAwesome]

36. this is ridiculous

now it's

* 58%
Kerry 40%
Evenly matched 2%

[liberal N proud]

37. shrub now at 58% Get voting!

[JPace]

38. bush 58% Kerry 40%

[mountainvue]

39. I saw that

too. Now bush is leading.