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Old 08-13-2016, 05:05 PM
 
Location: Montgomery County, PA
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The link to the online poll was posted in a LOT of republican threads and facebook feeds. Resulting in a lot of Donald Trump supporters answering the poll.
So its not representative of the population, its representative of the people who saw the link in their friends feeds
May I ask why only Republicans can point and click? I thought Trump supporters are all poorly educated dimwits. How is it they can find their way to these web sites and vote without a college education?

 
Old 08-13-2016, 05:07 PM
 
Location: Montgomery County, PA
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Only the southern racists states and backward mid religious nut states will vote for Trump Sane America will elect Hilary and progress America to a new more perfect freedom.
Let's see, I am not a southerner, I am not racist and I am not a religious nut. There goes your theory. Got something else?
 
Old 08-13-2016, 05:07 PM
 
Location: Houston
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May I ask why only Republicans can point and click? I thought Trump supporters are all poorly educated dimwits. How is it they can find their way to these web sites and vote without a college education?
Chimpanzees have been trained to do the same thing.
 
Old 08-13-2016, 05:08 PM
 
Location: Brooklyn, NY
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Here is a tweet from an MSNBC producer saying that NBCPoll.com is not an NBC site. https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/sta...15896178995200
 
Old 08-13-2016, 05:08 PM
 
Location: South Jersey
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Self-selection renders online polls totally invalid. Trump supporters are simply far more inclined to vote in them.

I distinctly remember an AOL poll in 2008 showing almost every state going for McCain... well, that didn't quite work out.
 
Old 08-13-2016, 05:09 PM
 
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The GOP took the state EVEN WITH THE DEM CONTROLLED RE-REDISTRICTING.

" and then were able to control redistricting."

Redistricting is what kept the state in the hands of the dems for 100 years.

Anyone who thinks the dems did NOT do so is NOT being honest.
It must be made unconstitutional together with for-profit prisons. Its obscene and makes a mockery of democracy. Do you support Hillary if she makes it clear that banning for-profit prisons and the current system of gerrymandering is crucial for a supreme court justice to support?
 
Old 08-13-2016, 05:13 PM
 
Location: Montgomery County, PA
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My be the sites are fake but why don't the legitimate news sites set up online polls? Are they afraid of what they may find out? It takes two minutes for the CNN to set up a multiple choice question, but they don't.
 
Old 08-13-2016, 05:14 PM
 
Location: Montgomery County, PA
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Here is a tweet from an MSNBC producer saying that NBCPoll.com is not an NBC site. https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/sta...15896178995200
Alright, set one up damned. What are you afraid of?
 
Old 08-13-2016, 05:16 PM
 
Location: Type 0.73 Kardashev
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"Actually, Brunswick County is not 'pretty big"

" That means Brunswick County is only slightly larger than the average county in the state"

Larger than means BIGGER to me.
You didn't say 'bigger', you said 'pretty big'. Stop being disingenuous. It's just an average-sized county in North Carolina.



Do you not understand basic math?

Let me repeat myself - since 2000, Brunswick County has added 50k in population, while Mecklenburg County (Charlotte) has added 340k and Wake County (Raleigh) has added 395k in that same time frame. That's 735k compared to 50k. Do you not get that this means that population increases in Charlotte metro and the Research Triangle are vastly more influential - especially considering that those two counties I cited represent less than half of the totals from those areas - than Brunswick County? Rate of growth is irrelevant. Total growth is what matters.

This is so glaringly obvious that I can't tell whether you're actually unable to comprehend such a simple thing, or if you're being intentionally obtuse in a desperate attempt to obfuscate the ridiculous point you were trying to make.
 
Old 08-13-2016, 05:18 PM
 
Location: Brooklyn, NY
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Alright, set one up damned. What are you afraid of?
Not afraid of anything; we just have to understand our sources of information. Just like when we watch FoxNews, we expect it to be right leaning, and when we read the Huffington Post, we expect it to be very left leaning. Don't take everything at face value.
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