Comments on: How you vote — decide for yourself

Comment on How you vote — decide for yourself by: Barbara

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 00:02:52 +0000

I found the story about the telephone poll. It was in the first comment on a post titled, How Phone Polls REALLY Work, on a blog called B.J. Lawson's Reality Check. I may have come across it while reading about Republican candidate Ron Paul, who apparently has also been shut out of some telephone polls.

Comment on How you vote — decide for yourself by: Ken

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 20:15:16 +0000

I found several hundred results, with the first page of results quite on that topic, Barbara, but I don’t recall seeing the specific site you mentioned. Perhaps you should try a different set of search keywords.

Here’s an interesting read, an entire ebook that you may be able to buy a printed copy of, perhaps used, regarding the deceptions in our computerized voting systems. It’s titled “Votescam.”

Comment on How you vote — decide for yourself by: Barbara

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:45:52 +0000

I couldn't locate the blog that mentioned missing names from telephone polls. I'm still looking and will post it if I find it. But here are two interesting questions about how the media is handling coverage of the debates and Democratic candidates' standing in the polls: Mother Jones: Kucinich Wins Debate Poll, ABC Covers Up Results Daily Kos: Kucinich Debate and Post-Debate vids w/poll Here the Des Moines Register offers its excuse for not including Kucinich in their televised debate yesterday: Why Kucinich isn't in the Democratic debate. According to this post in the Huffington Post:

'Kucinich's campaign complained the Cleveland congressman is being discriminated against because his Iowa field director, Marcos Rubinstein, works from a home office in Dubuque rather than a rented storefront. The campaign added that Rubinstein's efforts have been "bolstered by a dozen-or-so senior campaign staff who have traveled the state over the past several months."'

So it's supposedly about store fronts, which a) cost money and b) cause the need to commute and use more energy. It appears campaigns aren't supposed to be efficient or environmentally friendly. Gosh, wouldn't it be nice to have a frugal president for a change? I mean, frugal in the right places? Like not going into trillions of dollars of debt for an illegal war he had to lie to get into?

Comment on How you vote — decide for yourself by: Barbara

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:51:05 +0000

Helen, I read somewhere online that someone got a call from a poller who listed all the Democratic candidates except Kucinich. We haven’t had any primaries yet, but when the news anchors talk about the Democratic candidates they only mention Clinton, Obama, and Edwards, and none of the others. In spite of that, the DFA Presidential Pulse Poll shows Kucinich in the lead with Edwards second (after Al Gore). I think anything can happen at this point, but it appears the news media (and perhaps others) are once again shutting out candidates. If people only pay attention to TV, they can easily forget the other candidates exist.

I hate to see big money and corporate America telling the rest of us who to vote for. It’s our election, not just theirs to purchase.

Comment on How you vote — decide for yourself by: Helen

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:11:54 +0000

Barbara, I find that disturbing also. Her show is hyped up media with lots of heavy commercial advertising like her magazine. One of my yoga friends is under her spell as if she is a guru or something. Just too much hype for me! So yes it is disturbing, and it will help him get a lot of votes…. Helen