Un-Scientific(Max how do you spell the theme from close encounters of third kind?)

Gregory Geboski ggeboski at hotmail.com
Sat Sep 30 07:43:16 PDT 2000


All right, "Virtual Voting Booth" worked this time... but the first time I tried it, it showed completely different results, with only 240 votes cast.


>From: Tom Lehman <TLehman at lor.net>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Subject: Re: Un-Scientific(Max how do you spell the theme from close
>encounters of third kind?)
>Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 10:14:28 -0400
>
>Vote in the virtual voting booth and a window with the results pops up.
>Over
>405,000 votes had been cast when I virtually voted. The virtual voting
>booth is
>at the bottom of the page on your left.
>
>Tom
>
>Gregory Geboski wrote:
>
> > OK, before I sound off I need to know what people are talking about
>here. I
> > just went to the site; there is something at the bottom of the page
>called
> > "Virtual Voting Booth." Bush has over 50% here--but it's from a massive
>pool
> > of 240 votes. Then, at the top right, there's something called "The
> > Candidator," a frighteningly trivial "contest" between a cartoon Gush
>and a
> > cartoon Bore. So where's the mock poll?
> >
> > >From: Tom Lehman <TLehman at lor.net>
> > >Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> > >To: "lbo-talk at lists.panix.com" <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
> > >Subject: Un-Scientific(Max how do you spell the theme from close
>encounters
> > >of third kind?)
> > >Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 16:57:44 -0400
> > >
> > >Ok. Here's the Time magazine website url
> > >
> > >http://www.time.com/time/campaign2000/
> > >
> > >Over 405,000 people have voted in a mock presidential poll so far on
> > >this time website straw poll.. Nader is leading Gore by a margin of,
> > >24% to 16% or roughly 8%. Are people who visit the Time website that
> > >out of sync with the rest of America? Do more Nader voters read Time?
> > >Considering the large sample this is an odd result to say the least.
> > >
> > >Tom Lehman
> > >
> >
> >
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