There's something fishy about some of these polls!

[Stew225]

Have you noticed how many of the smaller TV station polls all end up 80-20 for Kerry? Color me a bit suspicious but that sure doesn't seem normal.

These are all with similar web page layouts where the debate coverage is on the left near the upper part of the page and you have to click on the question "Who won the debate". After clicking Kerry about 8 in a row came out 80-20. They were all properly marked as far as the correct TV station but the results were all the same. Great results, of course, but highly suspicious, I would say.

[ibegurpard]

1. Freeps know they can't win so they're trying to skew online polls

so far in Kerry's direction that no one will take them seriously. They had discussions about using that tactic. Fine by me. If the media stops reporting these stupid online polls as if they're newsworthy then they will have done all of us a great favor.

[OnionPatch]

2. I noticed too

but I was thinking since these websites are all the same, they might throw all their numbers together and share poll results?

[jayctravis]

3. More than likely...

it's a group of stations all using the same html/java code that one of them made. They all have the same website layout, so it's an automatic web updating program.