CNBC posted an internet poll after Wednesday’s debate, too. But it has been removed too. Again, CNBC alleges that Paul supporters have stuffed the poll with votes for their candidate. This time they did not name the candidate, instead, they decreed that the margin did not reflect the consistency of other polls.
“We had a poll up from our Republican Presidential Debate asking readers who they thought won,” Wastler wrote on the www.cnbc.com website. “ One candidate was leading by such a margin that it became obvious the polling wasn't so much a reading of our audience, but of the Internet prowess of this particular candidate's political organization. We have therefore taken the poll down.
“Yes, we've gone through this exercise before,” he concluded.
In the October statement, Wastler stated, “Paul is a fine gentleman with some substantial backing and, by the way, was a dynamic presence throughout the debate , but I haven't seen him pull those kind of numbers in any "legit" poll. Our poll was either hacked or the target of a campaign. So we took the poll down.
“The next day, our email basket was flooded with Ron Paul support messages. And the computer logs showed the poll had been hit with traffic from Ron Paul chat sites. I learned other Internet polls that night had been hit in similar fashion. Congratulations. You folks are obviously well-organized and feel strongly about your candidate and I can't help but admire that.
“But you also ruined the purpose of the poll. It was no longer an honest "show of hands" -- it suddenly was a platform for beating the Ron Paul drum."
That's absolutely ridiculous! It's as if he's saying "Well, since Ron Paul supporters actually care enough about their country and their candidate to actually vote in our poll, it clearly isn't valid." What happens if Ron Paul wins the primary? "Oh, well, this isn't valid because it was just a bunch of Ron Paul supporters who decided to actually vote. It's not a good sampling of peoples' opinions." CNBC is absurd!
ReplyDeleteIt is really frightening to think that a "military-industrial complex" does exist in America and that we are fooling ourselves into believing that we remain free. I noticed that the S. Carolina poll even ignored Ron Paul to such an extent that he did not appear in the poll itself.
ReplyDeleteSo, if Ron Paul has more support than the media is willing to admit, and that support is actually higher than any other candidate, what are we to think when it comes to action? What does the present establishment want? Complete Collapse? Open Sedition? Revolution? Chaos?
Or perhaps (watching the language vis-a-vis to Iran) another preventive war that we cannot win to distract all of us.........