PBS under fire for Sarah Palin poll

Boston Herald ^ | September 25, 2008 | Jessica Heslam

[TruthWillWin]

I voted dozens (or perhaps a hundred) of times. Then yesterday it would only let me vote once. There must have been 10 thread here asking to vote and I received emails from 3 different people telling me to vote.

[Rembrandt]

“Yes, every American realizes that”

[VeniVidiVici]

It’s also a sham poll as it’s been running for what seems like a month.

[BJungNan]

How much BS do they think we are going to believe. They only ask if Palin is qualified and not Obama. The media is sickening.

[John123]

Let’s hold a poll... should taxpayers fund PBS since they take marching orders from the DNC?

[dila813]

But I know

[xp38]

MacNeil is back? jk....force of habit I know :) Was the show a bit more balanced back then?

[Lancey Howard]

We had "back to school night" tonight and as we were roaming the halls of the high school, going from classroom to classroom in accordance with my son's schedule, we saw posters made by the Politics Club stuck on the walls advertising the club's forum topic for next Friday: "Who is LESS qualified to be President?" Beneath that provocative title were photos of Sarah Palin and Barack Obama.

As Monk would say, "I LOL-ed out loud." It was hilarious, though I have a feeling the kids didn't realize the irony. Probably what surprised me most was that the posters haven't been ripped down (yet) by the teachers.

[Gene Eric]

What’s it going to take to make this poll go away? It keeps poppin’ up in FR like wack-a-mole.

[Question Liberal Authority]

To be fair, the poll has been up for tens of millions of days.

[Ros42]

Behold the fruits of our labor! lol

[Liberty Valance]

The great equivocator himself - Bill Moyers

Equivocate:
1 : to use language especially with intent to deceive
2 : to avoid committing oneself in what one says

[CedarDave]

It’s easy to get past those “one vote cookie” polls. You just delete your browser cookies and it resets and you can vote again. It isn’t rocket science.

With FireFox you can tell it to block setting cookies from a particular web site. Then you can vote as many times as you want (unless you get a notice that your cookies are blocked).

[PISANO]

That’s what the election will be, 50% McCain, 48% Obama, morons 2% morons illiterate.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

“a “cookies mechanism” was installed that allowed only one vote per person”

rofl foolproof.

[PAR35]

You just delete your browser cookies and it resets and you can vote again.

Or just use each of your browsers. I think I have 5 on my main computer (IE, Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape, SeaMonkey. And that's just for My MS operating system.

[nralife]

I’ve voted in it several times just today. Never got a message saying I had already voted.

The trick may be to just paste the URL into your browser and then always go back there from your history drop down.

Copy it in and see:

http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html

I just voted AGAIN...

[ViLaLuz]

No taxpayer funds for PBS.

[ops33]

You know, that qualifies you as an honorary Democrat.