"Giant Ring Of Trump Supporters Busted For Rigging Online Polls"

[BainsBane]

The title is over the top, but the story confirms what we suspected.

According to The Daily Dot, the reason why Trump won the online polling but lost every other poll was that a large ring of Trump supporters rigged the vote:

In this latest incarnation, multiple Reddit users enlisted the Trump-supporting masses on r/The_Donald, which has over 200,000 subscribers, by posting dozens of online polls that are vulnerable to vote brigading, bots, and other forms of manipulation that make these non-scientific surveys notoriously unreliable.

The goal, according to comments surrounding the poll-manipulation threads, is to twist the mainstream media narrative that crowned Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton the victor. The effort spread to Twitter, where #TrumpWon became the number one trending topic in the United States Tuesday morning.

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

[onehandle]

1. 'I regret nothing!'

[A-Schwarzenegger]

2. Is that Trump's Doctor?

[BainsBane]

3. The healthiest troll ever!

[A-Schwarzenegger]

4. excellently astonishing!

[Monk06]

5. The Speckled Carp on the monitor adds that extra layer of gravitas

[A-Schwarzenegger]

7. Oh, i thought it was some kind of shoe, a nerd loafer or slipper

[sarae]

9. OMG

[Coyotl]

8. You realize we can't unsee that and are now scarred for life.

Bad enough we saw Trump for 90 minutes, and now in our fragile states, we see this ....

[MoonRiver]

14. He's bigly!

Just not in a good way!

[Monk06]

6. That's why I don't understand why people on DU lose their minds over online polls especially

four way national bucket of bullshit push polls

Now that the debate is over and Clinton has blown throught the bullshit, people should just accept that it is a two way race to the finish.

Ignore any poll that moves away from that end game question, Clinton or Trump pure and simple

[BainsBane]

10. They are obviously bullshit

I don't put any stock in them, but some seem to.

[Monk06]

11. Chrome actually enables you to vote more than once in online polls by selecting Incognito View

Freepers are all over that little trick

It blocks tracking cookies that are used to limit submissions to one vote

[Wounded Bear]

17. One shouldn't even try to track the "good" polls on a daily basis...

You have to filter out the noise, or else your emotions get whipsawed to hell and back.

[BainsBane]

12. morning kick

for an FYI

[bullwinkle428]

13. Online polls are completely less than worthless. That's why, as a big-time

Bernie supporter during the primaries, I NEVER attempted to tout the online polls as any kind of evidence of his superiority as a candidate.

[BainsBane]

18. Yep

People should have learned that from the primary.

[GopherGal]

20. Should have...

But I've heard some morons yesterday and this morning refer to Trump winning "all the polls".

It only takes a little thinking to put two and two together and figure out that, with rare exceptions*, any poll available the day after a debate must be a "self-selected sample" poll like an internet poll, and therefore extremely unscientific and vulnerable to intentional skewing like these polls.

*The CNN/ORC poll was an exception to this. The debate ended too late Monday night for polling firms to be allowed to randomly call people (on the east coast at least) after the debate was over, but, as I understand it, CNN/ORC contacted people in advance and got permission to call them after the debate.

[yuiyoshida]

15. Having seen the Polls I knew that is what happened.

SO HOW exactly did they think that was going to work? Because its not going to make people change their minds and go...

"GOSH DARN, I been wrong all this TIME... He WOULD BE AN EXCELLENT PRESIDENT TO VOTE FOR!"

NOT exactly happening here folks....

[Madam45for2923]

16. Yep! Good to know!

[anneboleyn]

19. Reddit has specific rules against "vote brigading" -- they delete posts and suspend accounts

that are suspected of engaging in and/or encouraging this kind of activity. Hopefully Reddit still has this policy in place, and hopefully they are keeping up with it as much as possible. Bots have become a huge problem since they can behave like a normal account and can vote endlessly in support of something in a poll (like for Trumper). And I'd be willing to bet that Trump's campaign pays a hefty amount of $$$$ to Trump's "four hundred pound hackers" to post garbage to Twitter all day (hence the rise of #Trumpwon after the debate, which I don't believe for a second was organic and "real&quot , to spam news stories with pro-Trump posts (notice how stories will be almost immediately overrun with comments supporting Trump and denouncing the story w/angry, hysterical language but vague accusations that the story is full of lies or media bias -- the usual language that Trump and his surrogates use. Or they will immediately turn to Hillary.

The names of the pro-Trump accounts will be your usual "sock puppet" types of names, empty accounts w/no bio info, no pictures, nothing, post history limited to Trump articles, and spamming the accounts of politicians and/or celebrities who have uttered words against Kaiser Obergruppenfuhrer Trump.