Am I the only one who NEVER votes in any of the online polls

[Catch22Dem]

I don't mean DU polls which are kinda fun. I mean any of the CNN/MSNBC/etc... polls. Someone usually posts on DU saying we need to go DU some poll about Cindy, the war, Frist, Phelps, or any other controversial issue.

Am I the only one who sees these online polls for what they are? Complete nonsense? Shit, half the votes they get are from DUers or the morAns over at FR. Kinda skews the results a bit, dontcha think?

[wryter2000]

1. Head...will...explode...

I'm online.

This looks like a poll.

Should I answer it and say I don't answer online polls?

But if I do, will I be answering an online poll?

But if I don't, will anyone know my opinion?

:evilgrin:

[Catch22Dem]

2. HAHAHA

That's why I excluded DU polls. I was aware of the intense irony as soon as I started typing. HAHA

[AnnInLa]

3. I think the online polls are kinda fun, actually, BUT

I hate the DU polls...most of them....they are silly, and worse, mostly stupid.

[libertypirate]

4. They are so untrustworthy to begin with, the corp. press

"I vote in them because they help the MSM determine what news is important"

How are you sure?

It's just as easy to make something add up rather then add up the result.

There was an AOL poll and no matter how high the count every result came back with the exact same percentage. I think the count change was at least 10,000 votes and ever DU post had the exact same percentage. Always the pro-war percentage was higher then the anti-war I will try and find it today.

[Catch22Dem]

5. I know, and yet, look at the option that is winning

Are DUers that diluted? Do you guys really think you're shaping the news by competing w/ freepers on some web poll?

[SheilaT]

6. I used to vote

when given the alert "DU this polls!" but no longer. I've decided that they are so totally meaningless, and that anyone with half a brain understands there is absolutely no validity to them.

Of course, this poll has no validity either, although it's interesting to see how it goes.

[Evergreen Emerald]

7. I just voted in a poll saying I don't vote in polls....

...and its the third poll I voted in this morning.

[kevsand]

8. While entirely unscientific,

there are network dweebs who will use them to try to understand the demographics of the population that watches their channel or visits their web site. That by itself is of some importance, but the real benefit of the polls is that the networks report them all the time, and while John Q. Public generally understands how unscientific they are, a steady drumbeat one way or the other eventually registers.