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Ron Paul in a poll slump! Updated and ignore this post!

Submitted by ronpaulvote on Wed, 10/10/2007 - 13:38

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Ron Paul has 30,000+ YouTube subscribers and less than 4000 votes in the horse race.....

http://www.2008horserace.com/

What can we do about this?

I have watched the votes go up to 3600 and then back down to 3250.....

350 votes just vanished

Already Voted

Submitted by rftbunny on Thu, 10/11/2007 - 15:45. Permalink

I think i already voted .. it's clear they are suppressing real votes if they are just disappearing ... i think the page is also not working for some people ... they are going to try to say that the paulites couldnt vote twice and claim its a real poll

I can vouch

Submitted by soulmantim on Thu, 10/11/2007 - 14:34. Permalink

I have been taking screen shots of the polls the last 3 days (3 times a day) one in the morning, one in the evening, and one just before midnight.
2008horserace is resetting Ron Paul's numbers to, I believe 3,200 at what I think is around 9pm (I could be wrong on that time).

Either way, I have sent them a few posts in the comment sections pointing this out, and letting them know I will report them to the local news, and they erased it and blocked my IP.

I plan on releasing a youtube video about this travesty next week on monday or tuesday (once I get a full weeks worth of screen captures)
They are real and are time/date stamped along with the poll #'s.]

Anyway, to let everyone know the numbers are phoney, at least for Ron Paul numbers. The sad part is if they didn't do this the Republican party % would be higher than the Democrat %, this is good imagery of what people trying to censor Ron Paul are doing to their own party!

So So Placing

Submitted by Nick Michelewicz on Thu, 10/11/2007 - 14:29. Permalink

Well he's above the lower tier, and below the media big shots. Pretty accurate.
We are moving up. Ron will in my opinion be in the top three anyway, when the primaries come around. Right now he's sort of in a weird spot. He's bigger than the other so called "long shots" but still not as big a force as the establishment guys.
When you put it all in perspective we've come a long way. But we still have a lot of ground to cover before we can call Ron "Top Tier".

IP Checks

Submitted by Nick Michelewicz on Thu, 10/11/2007 - 14:18. Permalink

Well if you can vote more than once from the same IP address, but the vote totals periodically drop dow, this implies they do some kind of IP checking.
This is good by the way. I have no problem with a bunch of us voting in online polls and giving Dr. Paul support. But vvoting multiple times is fraud, besides don't you want to know how many people onine are really voting for him?
Ron Paul would not want people cheating by voting multiple times for him.

Not cheating but checking....

Submitted by TheoryUS on Thu, 10/11/2007 - 16:02. Permalink

I remember after one of the debates they had a text message poll where the same phone could not vote twice. I don't think a real poll would allow anyone to vote more than once. Think of ordering an item off the internet with your credit card and the validity of that card being checked after they sent you your items.

Again I have 7 pc's and I could have voted 7 times but didn't. I merely tested the ability to do so as so many tested their ability to text message more than once.

Also note that..

Submitted by TheoryUS on Wed, 10/10/2007 - 14:52. Permalink

I was vote 3555 for RP. Out of curiosity I then leaned over to my second (of 7) PC and became RP vote number 3556. I'm not a security guru but that suggests people with access to a large number of pc's could swing the vote regardless of their location.