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Title: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: thundley4 on September 05, 2010, 03:11:40 PM
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mistertrickster   (1000+ posts)             Sun Sep-05-10 03:30 PM
Original message
DU this poll! Local paper asks for positive negative vote on unionism.
   
Don't let the right-wing bastards get a moral victory.

Thanks.

http://www.kansas.com/2010/09/05/1479215/why-are-people...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9080160

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Bozita   (1000+ posts)           Sun Sep-05-10 03:58 PM
Response to Original message
7. Favorable 46% (230 votes) Unfavorable 54% (268 votes) Total Votes: 498
   
Favorable
46% (230 votes)
Unfavorable
54% (268 votes)
Total Votes: 498

Read more: http://www.kansas.com/2010/09/05/1479215/why-are-people...
Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: BattleHymn on September 05, 2010, 04:20:35 PM
(http://ranchero.com/images/papa404.png)
Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: BattleHymn on September 05, 2010, 04:21:54 PM
Here it is!  Looks like it was missing a part:

http://www.kansas.com/2010/09/05/1479215/why-are-people-against-unions.html
Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: thundley4 on September 05, 2010, 04:22:59 PM
Here it is!  Looks like it was missing a part:

http://www.kansas.com/2010/09/05/1479215/why-are-people-against-unions.html


Yeah, links lose something when they're brought over as part of a quote.
Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: BlueStateSaint on September 05, 2010, 04:54:20 PM
Not looking good now, gang.

Favorable 52%  351 votes

Unfavorable 48%  324 votes


After I voted "unfavorable."  And I'm in a union.
Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: Ballygrl on September 05, 2010, 06:39:39 PM
Voted and posted at Free Republic! :-)

Current Results:

Favorable
51% (451 votes)

Unfavorable
49% (439 votes)

Total Votes: 890

Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: Ballygrl on September 05, 2010, 06:42:17 PM
Favorable
48% (456 votes)

Unfavorable
52% (486 votes)

Total Votes: 942

Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: Ballygrl on September 05, 2010, 06:44:42 PM
:lmao:

Favorable
47% (464 votes)

Unfavorable
53% (516 votes)

Total Votes: 980

Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: Ballygrl on September 05, 2010, 06:48:31 PM
Favorable
46% (468 votes)

Unfavorable
54% (558 votes)

Total Votes: 1026

Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: Ballygrl on September 05, 2010, 06:50:16 PM
I love Conservatives! :lmao:

Favorable
45% (470 votes)

Unfavorable
55% (582 votes)

Total Votes: 1052


Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: thundley4 on September 05, 2010, 06:50:44 PM
Favorable
46% (468 votes)

Unfavorable
54% (558 votes)

Total Votes: 1026



Freeping Funny.  :hi5:
Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: cavegal on September 05, 2010, 06:52:22 PM
I bet Unions lose here!
Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: seabelle on September 05, 2010, 06:53:19 PM
56% unfavorable now  :hi5:
Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: Ballygrl on September 05, 2010, 06:56:49 PM
:lmao:

Favorable
42% (485 votes)

Unfavorable
58% (675 votes)

Total Votes: 1160

Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: Ballygrl on September 05, 2010, 07:00:26 PM
OMG!

Favorable
40% (487 votes)

Unfavorable
60% (728 votes)

Total Votes: 1215

Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: BattleHymn on September 05, 2010, 07:02:34 PM
:lmao:

Favorable
42% (485 votes)

Unfavorable
58% (675 votes)

Total Votes: 1160

Proxies seem to be allowed on this website.   :-)


Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: cavegal on September 05, 2010, 07:04:48 PM
(http://ranchero.com/images/papa404.png)
funny 404 BH! check your pm's
Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: Ballygrl on September 05, 2010, 07:05:04 PM
Proxies seem to be allowed on this website.

:hi5:
Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: Ballygrl on September 05, 2010, 07:06:07 PM
Favorable
39% (499 votes)

Unfavorable
61% (770 votes)

Total Votes: 1269

Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: thundley4 on September 05, 2010, 07:08:25 PM
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Lisa0825   (1000+ posts)           Sun Sep-05-10 06:49 PM
Response to Original message
17. Now it is being Freeped... I knew the whiner must be a Freeptard.
   
Favorable
48% (376 votes)
Unfavorable
52% (414 votes)
Total Votes: 790
Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: Ballygrl on September 05, 2010, 07:11:02 PM
Watch them whine now that it's being Freeped, it was OK though when it was being DU'd.
Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: Chris_ on September 05, 2010, 07:15:52 PM
That poll is going down like the Titanic.
Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: BattleHymn on September 05, 2010, 07:19:00 PM
Watch them whine now that it's being Freeped, it was OK though when it was being DU'd.

They have to have something to  :censored: about.  What else would they do?
Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: BlueStateSaint on September 05, 2010, 07:24:06 PM
They have to have something to  :censored: about.  What else would they do?

As I've said before, they're not happy unless they're not happy--and spreading their misery.
Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: Ballygrl on September 05, 2010, 07:35:44 PM
Favorable
35% (540 votes)

Unfavorable
65% (998 votes)

Total Votes: 1538

Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: Ballygrl on September 05, 2010, 09:26:54 PM
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Doremus  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)    
Sun Sep-05-10 08:53 PM
Response to Original message
24. 35% favorable, 65% unfavorable. n/t

:lmao:
Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: Ballygrl on September 05, 2010, 09:28:28 PM
:lmao:

I know I'm being totally immature, but I love this.

Favorable
29% (622 votes)

Unfavorable
71% (1537 votes)

Total Votes: 2159

Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: Linda on September 05, 2010, 09:30:55 PM
Hey is 622 the number of active members over at DU?
Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: Chris_ on September 05, 2010, 09:31:33 PM
Hey is 487 the number of active members over at DU?

Possibly.  It IS the weekend. :-)
Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: Ballygrl on September 05, 2010, 09:31:51 PM
OMG, this was in the comments section at The Wichita Eagle :lmao:

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Skeptic wrote on 9/5/2010 9:06:54 PM:

Mother_of_5 may be "ballygirl" who wrote to the ultra-right wing site, FreeRepublic.org

At the Eagle blog, she wrote: "This poll has been posted to several social sites with requests for votes. The numbers are certainly not representative of Wichita or Kansas."

That's true. It isn't "representative of Wichita or Kansas."

It's hugely biased to Koch clones. Here's the proof:

Freep this poll please: Why are people against unions?
The Wichita Eagle ^ | 9/5/10 | DAN VOORHIS
Posted on Sunday, September 05, 2010 6:46:28 PM by Ballygrl
Please Freep this poll on whether or not you have a favorable view of Unions.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2583762/posts

"Freeping" is what right wingers from around the country do to affect polls to dump on minorities, Muslims, Jews, non-fundamentalist Christians, good government activists, campaign finance reformers, environmentalists, etc. They take directions from Rush, Drudge, Coulter, Savage, Malkin or whomever, to send thousands of votes to newspapers or broadcast sites to counterfeit public opinion as being overwhelmingly pro-corporation. pro-pollution, pro-exploitation, anti-immigrant.

The Eagle can quickly determine, in all likelihood, where those thousands of votes have originated by checking its site counter. I'm betting 75% at least are from outside Kansas.


Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: Chris_ on September 05, 2010, 09:33:50 PM
 :rotf: So, are you going to post a rebuttal at FR?
Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: Airwolf on September 05, 2010, 09:39:01 PM
Favorable
 29% (629 votes)
Unfavorable
 71% (1568 votes)
Total Votes: 2197

Read more: http://www.kansas.com/2010/09/05/1479215/why-are-people-against-unions.html#ixzz0yiHUahJQ
Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: Ballygrl on September 05, 2010, 09:41:46 PM
:rotf: So, are you going to post a rebuttal at FR?

I just did at FR and I registered at The Wichita Eagle and posted in the comments section! :lmao:
Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: Revolution on September 05, 2010, 11:05:21 PM
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to send thousands of votes to newspapers or broadcast sites to counterfeit public opinion as being overwhelmingly pro-corporation. pro-pollution, pro-exploitation, anti-immigrant.

Holy crow! Paranoid much?

Thing winged monkies are coming to get you, fella. WATCH OUT!!!

 :thatsright:
Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: diesel driver on September 06, 2010, 01:25:27 AM
Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of labor unions?


Favorable
25% (693 votes)

Unfavorable
75% (2065 votes)

Total Votes: 2758

I've found how to vote multiple times.   :-) 

At least 5 of those unfavorable votes are mine.
Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: djones520 on September 06, 2010, 03:56:26 AM
I emailed the author of the story, and informed him of DU's intent to tamper with his poll.   :lmao:
Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: Ballygrl on September 06, 2010, 08:08:39 AM
Skeptic HAS to be a member of DU, he's totally whining and name calling now because the poll didn't go his way.
Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: Karin on September 07, 2010, 08:51:28 AM
As of Tuesday morning, it is at 76% unfav, 24% fav, with 4,130 votes.  The DUmmies can whine all they want about freeping a poll, but the data was backed up with some intelligent commentary on why people voted the way they did. 
Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: Ballygrl on September 07, 2010, 10:22:00 AM
As of Tuesday morning, it is at 76% unfav, 24% fav, with 4,130 votes.  The DUmmies can whine all they want about freeping a poll, but the data was backed up with some intelligent commentary on why people voted the way they did.

That fool Skeptic wrote this yesterday:

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Skeptic wrote on 9/6/2010 4:04:06 AM:

It appears the anti-union folks posting here are mainly divided into two camps. One, ordered on to the Eagle site by FreeRepublic.com, made the majority of the posts. Today was the first time they ever posted at the Eagle site. They are clearly non-Kansans. They include posters such as "LiberalTrash," "GeekVoter," "ModerateVoter," "BallyGirl," "GoUnion," etc. Then there is a second bunch. Most of them started posting, probably drawn to the site by the nutcases at Operation Rescue, who were joyously celebrating the assassination of Dr. George Tiller. They include "Mopar"(1000+ posts in less than a year since George was shot in church), "Mom_of_5," who posts not quite as frequently, and "OneDad," who rarely posts but always seems to come from a right wing, fundamentalist perspective.

"Ballygirl" claims that the "DemocraticUnderground" site first asked liberals to post. I doubt that's true, but since "FreeRepublic.com" asked its "freepers" to drown the site in postings, more that 2,000 have been received.

Is that an expression of the opinions of Kansans?

Thank goodness, it isn't.

So I answered with this and he never responded back of course:

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Ballygrl wrote on 9/6/2010 8:04:24 AM:

Skeptic, oh my.

You don't want to face the fact that the poll was going along OK and was reflective of Kansas voters views UNTIL the DU tried to skew the results, over 4 hours later the poll was posted at FR, and in typical progressive fashion when things don't go your way you name call. All you have to do is Google the title "DU this poll! Local paper asks for positive negative vote on unionism" and the 1st thing that comes up will be DU, you'll notice at the initial time the poll was posted at 3:30PM EST there were very few votes and Unfavorable was leading Favorable by a margin of 57-43, an hour and a half later it was 50-50, please note the DU board is set to EST, FR board default is set to PST, and the poll was posted on FR at 4:46PM PST which translates to 7:46PM EST, 4 hours and 16 minutes AFTER the poll was posted at DU. Again, turnabout is fair play, and I'd like to know why you're not complaining about DU who started this by trying to skew the poll results?


Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: true_blood on September 07, 2010, 10:29:30 AM
 :popcorn: :popcorn: :cheersmate:
Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: Revolution on September 07, 2010, 02:45:03 PM
She shoots...

I can't believe it. With 1 second left on the clock, SHE SCORES!!!
Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: sharkhawk on September 07, 2010, 02:59:51 PM
The DUmmies can't even DU a poll.  Whenever they try it comes up over here and on FR and boom it always turns our way.  Should show them the power of the DUmmies. :cheersmate:
Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: BlueStateSaint on September 07, 2010, 03:00:45 PM
Talk about overhead smashes!  Ballygrl,  :bow: :bow: :bow: :hi5: :hi5: :hi5:
Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: BattleHymn on September 07, 2010, 04:57:56 PM
That fool Skeptic wrote this yesterday:

So I answered with this and he never responded back of course:




That was a very Frank-esque way to start your post.  Bravo. :cheersmate:
Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: Ballygrl on September 07, 2010, 05:36:18 PM
Thanks guys!

And yes I stole that line from Frank, I love it when he says Oh my LOL.

BTW in case anyone doesn't read the shoutbox this was in it:

[Tue 14:36] <djones520> maybe he'll do a bit of research and do a story on DU. 
[Tue 14:35] <djones520> Just got a reply from a reporter, whom I informed that the DUmmies were DU'ing a poll of his.  He was quite shocked


djones said this the other day in this thead:

I emailed the author of the story, and informed him of DU's intent to tamper with his poll.

This is all turning out :lmao: as heck, and the comments section is still going on, this is probably the most action that The Wichita Eagle has ever gotten. We would never of known about that poll if someone at DU was able to play fair and not try to skew the darn results.
Title: Re: Freep this poll, :)
Post by: Splashdown on September 07, 2010, 06:38:31 PM
Thanks guys!

And yes I stole that line from Frank, I love it when he says Oh my LOL.

BTW in case anyone doesn't read the shoutbox this was in it:

[Tue 14:36] <djones520> maybe he'll do a bit of research and do a story on DU. 
[Tue 14:35] <djones520> Just got a reply from a reporter, whom I informed that the DUmmies were DU'ing a poll of his.  He was quite shocked


djones said this the other day in this thead:

I emailed the author of the story, and informed him of DU's intent to tamper with his poll.

This is all turning out :lmao: as heck, and the comments section is still going on, this is probably the most action that The Wichita Eagle has ever gotten. We would never of known about that poll if someone at DU was able to play fair and not try to skew the darn results.

 :hi5: