Hey get this out to everyone there is a poll at this
web site "www.calthomas.com/index.php?poll=1" and Ron
Paul is behind, I guess only Cal Thomas' friends visit
that site. Anyway get everybody to vote on it.
I'd like to once again step up and point out that these polls have utterly no validity or usefulness, and the constant barrage of "see, I won this poll" is meaningless. I am tired of LP presidential candidates, Republican candidates like Paul, and various wannabe movers-and-shakers like Stephen Gordon unethically citing push-polls and self-selecting polls as "evidence of momentum" or worse, as in Gordon's case, "indicating that x% of Libertarians believe <insert preferred Gordon cause here>."
It might be feel-good stuff for the troops, but when it is presented as credible "analysis" replete with "baseline data," it crosses the line denoting mendacity, in my opinion. Gordon, in particular, has been doing this repeatedly and without apology.
Cheers,
Brian
dredelstein@... wrote:
Hey get this out to everyone there is a poll at this
web site "www.calthomas.com/index.php?poll=1" and Ron
Paul is behind, I guess only Cal Thomas' friends visit
that site. Anyway get everybody to vote on it.
Brian,
Perhaps you think online polls are useless, but this is your opinion, not fact. I happen to disagree and think that they are very useful. Even if the only value of these polls were as "feel-good stuff for the troops," a positive effect that you concede they might have, this would still be valuable, as the morale and motivation of supporters are always among the highest priorities for any mass movement.
But I think that the significant buzz surrounding Ron Paul's campaign owes a lot to the strength of his activist following, and this strength is manifested in the fact that he regularly runs away with the results of polls whose participants are self-selecting. This shows that people who are paying attention to the race, and are motivated to do something more than merely answer a question or two when a mainstream pollster calls on the phone, or cast a ballot on Election Day, are disproportionately supporting Ron Paul.
Love & Liberty,
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P.S. - A couple recent messages to a local Ron Paul Meetup group which I don't think have been posted here, one about a new site RonPaulRadio.com, and another with some inspirational numbers and message:
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