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Saturday, August 14, 2010

The sidebar poll.

COR had a plurality, Sandbur Center being close behind.

What I find interesting is that the percentages add up to more than 100%. The poll format allowed multiple choice voting. It at first did not record votes correctly, and later it did not have a sound mechanism to prevent ballot-box stuffing, which I suspect from the high COR voting.

Blame Google for this one. As you'd blame the GOP for Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004, and as the GOP blames Mark Ritchie for Franken being Senator.

Methodology is inexact, and rigging outcomes is as old as polling and voting.

Karzai prospers, as did Diem, as did Bhutto. Time marches on, but there's some circularity to it. For every Ghandi there are tens of thousands of Karzai and Bhutto volunteers.

And Sandbur Center to my mind holds more truth than COR.

COR smells of teen spirit, and teamwork propaganda. As if failure and reality were untruthful, or too hideous to some people to acknowledge. Tower of Babel was not a sidebar poll choice, except indirectly, in the last poll choice.

One poll I am contemplating is to post one in order see what opinion exists on whether I should run any more sidebar polls.