PJM Straw Poll… Vote, Vote, Vote!
Pajamas Media reports:
The fourth week of the PAJAMAS MEDIA PRESIDENTIAL STRAW POLL has officially begun. Over 42,000 votes were cast in the first three weeks. You can now vote in the third week in both parties: Click to open the voting booth at top of center column of PJM’s front page. You can vote weekly for candidates in both parties —we encourage you to vote in both.
IMPORTANT ALERT: The perspicacious PJM tech staff has detected significant spamming in the third week of the poll and isolated the cheaters. In some cases they voted hundreds of times from the same IP for the same candidate. No, we are not taking these people to the woodshed (or even naming their names), but we are listing the locations of the miscreants and deducting their votes accordingly.Without help from spammers, Rudy Giuliani (32%) and Bill Richardson (37.6%) were easy winners on the Republican and Democratic sides respectively.
Especially Ron Paul, Obama and Romney seem to receive some, umh, spam support.
It is interesting to see where this goes. Richardson is an experienced candidate (as some commenters pointed out), but he doesn’t seem to be leading in the polls… except for the one at PJM.
Is the poll at PJM therefore respresentative of the American people? Probably not, but it is interesting to follow nonetheless.
8 Responses to “PJM Straw Poll… Vote, Vote, Vote!”
Who the hell is Ron Paul? He sure seems popular, over 50% of the republican vote.
Lynx,
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Ron Paul is a former Libertarian (big L- he ran for pres once as their candidate) and now a small l libertartian-GOP congressman. Apparently he was one of the candidates whose totals were artificially inflated by spam (Rudi, I think you’re a fan- as that you
But also, I noticed that the ‘rules’ allow for everyone to vote for a candidate from each party, so the results reflect not just the wishes of the members of that party. I find that a bit odd: wouldn’t partisans from each side vote for a candidate from the other party based on their belief that a particular candidate was more ‘beatable’?
I also wonder if Ron Paul may have received a lot of votes from Democrats because he’s been a staunch opponent of the Iraq war from the outset.
I agree that allowing voting for both parties doesn’t give a clear idea of what voters for each party want. On the other hand I don’t think everyone will vote for the most “beatable” member of the other party. I voted for Giulliani because he’s the only republican I could see myself voting for. If my way of voting were the norm the poll would show which candidate was more electable nationally.
Yeah, I thought about that too, Lynx, and I imagine that’s the intent. I just have a feeling that some people vote that way, while others vote for their dream opponent, you know?
Ron Paul! I freakin love it LOL
But Kucinich pulling a 2nd place showing???? ARGGGGG!!!
“Who the hell is Ron Paul?”
Hmm, isn’t he/she a famous transvestite and drag queen?
Didn’t know she’s republican, though. And I’m somewhat surprised about the huge support shown in the poll…
“But Kucinich pulling a 2nd place showing?”
Come on, folks, this poll is crap. It’s just the overwhelmingly right wing readers of PM voting for the dem candidates they deem easiest to beat…
Anyone thinking that perhaps spam could play a role in this and that they’ll correct it all?