***Val and I watched the debate together as the prompt for the cell phone poll came into the screen view. I urged her to vote and later I placed mine. We left the Fox channel when the vote was Palin 86% Biden 12%. The next morning I found following at several Fox sites...
The web produced the following examples......
I just checked the Fox News web site to find the results of their cell phone
text message poll that they promoted tonight. Totally unscientific of
course...they all are. But I found it most peculiar that at the exact same
time they were announcing on TV that Palin won with like 91% of the vote
(yeah...right), their website had it 61-39 for BIDEN! Hmmmm....
Look quick before they change this.
http://elections.foxnews.com/
phillbo...@gmail.com View profileOn Oct 2, 11:06 pm, "Dano"
I have been trying to find online links for both MSNBC and FOX's text polls and have not found them. The two polls you are referencing are different... check more carefully. I saw what you were talking about during my search and you are mixing up polls here. If anyone has links to the final results it would be appreciated. I watched both channels coverage and here are the final numbers I saw for each. FOX- Palin 88% Biden 12%, MSNBC- Palin 26% Biden 74%. Fox claimed over a million votes and showed their results throughout the coverage. MSNBC only showed the results once briefly at the end of Chris Matthews' coverage and made no mention of numbers of received votes. (shrug) - Hide quoted text -- Show quoted text -
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From: phillbo...@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 02:29:17 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: Fox news debate poll
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On Oct 2, 11:06 pm, "Dano"
> I just checked the Fox News web site to find the results of their cell phone
> text message poll that they promoted tonight. Totally unscientific of
> course...they all are. But I found it most peculiar that at the exact same
> time they were announcing on TV that Palin won with like 91% of the vote
> (yeah...right), their website had it 61-39 for BIDEN! Hmmmm....
> Look quick before they change this.
> http://elections.foxnews.com/
> Who won the vice presidential debate Thursday?
> Sarah Palin 39%
> Joe Biden 61%
> Total Voters:117669
I have been trying to find online links for both MSNBC and FOX's text
polls and have not found them. The two polls you are referencing are
different... check more carefully. I saw what you were talking about
during my search and you are mixing up polls here.
If anyone has links to the final results it would be appreciated. I
watched both channels coverage and here are the final numbers I saw
for each. FOX- Palin 88% Biden 12%, MSNBC- Palin 26% Biden 74%. Fox
claimed over a million votes and showed their results throughout the
coverage. MSNBC only showed the results once briefly at the end of
Chris Matthews' coverage and made no mention of numbers of received
votes. (shrug)
Oh, I had no doubt they were different. I can't find those results either.
Utterly worthless anyway as I'm sure you know. I was hopping around after
the debate to sample reaction from as many POVs as possible. When I saw the
silly text message poll on Fox, I decided to mess with them by voting a
bunch of times for Biden. I knew what the results would be, but I was
amazed that you could vote as many times as you liked. I have unlimited
messaging on my plan, so I found it was really easy to keep re-sending as
much as I pleased....which I did. I almost missed the results, but I
happened to click back to Fox at the right time on Van Susstern's show.
They claimed Palin won by over 90%. Yeah...right.
> If anyone has links to the final results it would be appreciated. I
> watched both channels coverage and here are the final numbers I saw
> for each. FOX- Palin 88% Biden 12%, MSNBC- Palin 26% Biden 74%. Fox
> claimed over a million votes and showed their results throughout the
> coverage. MSNBC only showed the results once briefly at the end of
> Chris Matthews' coverage and made no mention of numbers of received
> votes. (shrug)
Yup...I missed their's too. These message polls are simply a promotional
vehicle for the cell phone carriers. These polls could not possibly be less
scientific. I just happen to pay for unlimited texting in order for us to
stay in easy contact with our daughters.
