How did the repugs dominate the online polls??

[brettdale]

Crazy.

[Historic NY]

1. They think that it shows a good reflection....

much like the primaries where cadres of people over and over hit the polls.

[Cattledog]

2. Easy to do with bots.

[MiniMe]

3. That is why I never trust online polls

Just like some post here and say "DU this poll", the repugs do the same thing on various message boards. They are desperate to make the polls look close.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Like this:

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/09/27/giant-ring-trump-supporters-busted-rigging-online-polls.html

[comradebillyboy]

5. The same way Bernie's supporters dominated on line polls.

They voted multiple time and encouraged all of their social media contacts to do the same. That's why on line polls have so little meaning.

[sarcasmo]

6. Russians

[TheBaculumKing]

7. Putin's Trolls and Freepers

Same way #TrumpWon got elevated.

[C_U_L8R]

9. Click farms

Sweatshops full of poor folks in places overseas like Russia who get
paid 10¢ an hour slave wages to click and click and click and click for Trump.
He'll probably stiff them as well.

It's all baloney and any self-respecting media organization should
get rid of these easy-abused 'polls' that mislead their audiences.
And for these particular polls, they should investigate where the
IP address are originating from and whether they're being cloaked.

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. Online polls are only a measure of how quickly partisans can swarm them; 4chan is an expert

as they showed in a 2009 TIME poll - see http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5578923&mesg_id=5580882 (in which candidates could be given poor ratings, so it has some who were outside the desired 4chan list getting loads of votes):

https://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/15/inside-the-precision-hack/

Look at the first letters in the final result - they still spell "marblecake also the game"; and look at the number of votes (rightmost column) - there's a weird jump in total votes at Manny Pacquiao, because he's the candidate that others were most voting up, and 4chan had to vote down the most.

A comment from Time:

For proof of moot's influence on the Web, one need look no further than the TIME 100 poll results. While Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao got a larger vote total (20,391,818), the runner-up for the title of World's Most Influential Person, Malaysian politician Anwar Ibrahim, received a mere 47 on the influence scale. Moot denies knowing about any concerted plan by his followers to influence the poll, though TIME.com's technical team did detect and extinguish several attempts to hack the vote.

Undoubtedly, many people will question moot's worthiness of the title World's Most Influential Person. TIME.com managing editor Josh Tyrangiel says moot is no less deserving than previous title holders like Nintendo video-game designer Shigeru Miyamoto (2007) and Korean pop star Rain (2006). "I would remind anyone who doubts the results that this is an Internet poll," he says. "Doubting the results is kind of the point."

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1894028,00.html

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5578923&mesg_id=5580882

Online polls are an invitation for hacking. If people think they'll get reported as 'news', it's almost inevitable they will be.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Actually it's the reverse, I think. 4chan & reddit users ganged up to over-vote for Trump to make

I read that 4chan and reddit users combined to make the polls look ridiculous so that Trump would look like a fool.

[davidn3600]

12. The only polls that matter is the battleground polls by the end of the week

What pundits say on TV and what online polls show right now is meaningless.

The real judge of this debate is the American people. And their verdict will reflect in the polls within the next week.

You never know for sure how it was received by the greater population.

[Gman]

13. In past years we've had large lists of online polls to hit

No one did it here on DU this year.

[FSogol]

14. I had a post about that earlier. I think we collectivly decided they were a waste of time.

[Gman]

15. I think you are correct

Everyone did decide that they are a waste of time.