Who is your choice for President/Vice President?
John McCain/Sarah Palin (Republican)
18% (4 votes)
Barack Obama/Joe Biden (Democratic)
64% (14 votes)
Ralph Nader/Matt Gonzalez (Independent)
14% (3 votes)
Cynthia McKinney/Rosa Clemente (Green)
0% (0 votes)
Chuck Baldwin/Darrell Castle (Constitution)
0% (0 votes)
Bob Barr/Wayne Allyn Root (Libertarian)
5% (1 vote)
Total votes: 22
Submitted by stinerman on Tue, 2008-10-28 14:54
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You can't believe this poll ...
I hear that people lie to pollsters. :)
I'm the Bugs Bunny of Swords Crossed!
-4 Strongly Disagree - 0 Meh - Strongly Agree +4Old poll option
I noticed that before the switch to the new software, the poll option allowed for ranked choices and automatically calculated the IRV or Borda winner. Unfortunately, this polling version doesn't have such a choice. I would have liked to find out how our members and lurkers rank the candidates based on policy rather than political expediency/voting the lesser of two evils.
For what its worth, I rank the candidates as follows:
Nader, Barr, McKinney, Obama, Baldwin, McCain
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yeah the older poll was a custom plugin
while this one is a basic version that came built in... Unfortunately there is no custom plugin cool poll that I saw for this version... yet.
For what it's worth my rankings: McCain, Barr, Baldwin, Obama, Nader, McKinney with a huge dropoff after Baldwin.
"To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it." AR
Perhaps I could write one
If the source is available for this poll module, I could probably throw something together. I might need some help from a Drupal wizard like yourself -- dealing with the plugin API and the front-end, but the business logic of the thing can't be that difficult. IRV, Borda, and other preferential algorithms are dead easy to write in most programming languages.
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Look at that cluttered ballot
All those nobody vanity candidates wasting space and making the whole thing needlessly confusing.
I'm thinking SC needs to have some system for restricting ballot access by third parties for polls ;-)
Come, my friends. 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world -- Tennyson
No doubt
Somehow, I think someone is going to end up voting for Pat Buchanan.
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Pat Buchanan?
Buchanan's not even on the ballot. It's possible, however, that someone might do a write-in vote for him, though.
Joke
It was a joke at the expense of all the voters in Florida who voted for Buchanan in 2000 instead of Gore because of the design of the ballot in certain precincts.
A particularly good Futurama episode made a similar joke. When voting to determine if Planet Express would be sold, one of Mom's sons voted for Pat Buchanan even though the voting mechanism only had buttons for "yes" or "no". The son said that the ballot was confusing.
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George W. BushJudge DreddI'm listening to...
Nader beating McCain!
Hah, take that two party system!
What do you mean by "7 votes don't comprise a statistically valid sampling"?
I came. I saw. I posted.
Veni, Vidi, Bitchy.
See that?
Once McCain started losing suddenly his votes shoot up to 150% of their previous total. Clearly there's some fraud here.
RECOUNT!
I came. I saw. I posted.
Veni, Vidi, Bitchy.
Changed Votes?
"More W.Va. voters say machines are switching votes In six cases, Democratic votes flipped to GOP"
In our society, people are rewarded for pretending to be certain about things they're clearly not certain about. -- Sam Harris,
I don't believe these reports ...
the only people making them are Democrats! They are obviously lying for political gain ... or they are morons who can't figure out how to use the voting apparatus given to them properly. *
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* See Palm Beach County Florida, circa 2000.
I'm the Bugs Bunny of Swords Crossed!
-4 Strongly Disagree - 0 Meh - Strongly Agree +4Its not a matter of believing them
The real question is if this is an attempt to screw with the election or not.
Seeing as no one in their right mind would try to elect McCain by fiddling with the machines in WV, I think this is just some other error -- perhaps the poll workers aren't properly calibrating the screens.
I never broke the law; I am the law! --
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But then, again,
How did the last two Presidential elections get stolen? One was appointed through the U. S. Supreme Court (2000), and the other involved tampering and voting intimidation in Ohio (2004).
You're missing the point
If you wanted to tamper with an election, you wouldn't do it in WV. Too little electoral votes and its a lock for McCain. You'd be much better served screwing with the machines in FL, OH, PA, CO, etc., etc.
I never broke the law; I am the law! --
George W. BushJudge DreddI'm listening to...
or they are morons who can't
Old Jews do love Buchanan. One has to admit that some older people don't have the faculties they once had and the butterfly ballots can be confusing to people looking at only one side of the ballot. As for the West Virginian claims, they are West Virginians....
In our society, people are rewarded for pretending to be certain about things they're clearly not certain about. -- Sam Harris,
I could support a >2 party system, but I can't support Nader
ever again. Ego is all he got now.