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- From: msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader)
- Newsgroups: news.misc
- Subject: Re: Mock election, anyone?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.001858.7784@sq.sq.com>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 00:18:58 GMT
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- > > > Is anyone on the Internet/Usenet planning on holding some sort
- > > > of "mock election", where we get to email/telnet somewhere and
- > > > cast a mock vote for U.S. president?
- >
- > > Knowing (guessing) the political makeup of the net people, it would
- > > probably be a tie between the Libertarian and Socialist candidates.
- >
- > Someone actually did do a poll, it wound up being (in order) Clinton,
- > Marrou, Perot, Bush, Kibo, and downward from there.
-
- However, even for a Usenet poll, the methodology was flawed. The
- poll question listed four "major party candidates" by name, which
- hardly corresponded with the real world. This is a pity; it would
- actually have been interesting to see how the Libertarians' Marrou
- did on an *unbiased* poll on Usenet. An STV poll would have been
- interesting too. (i.e. where you can vote for your first choice, then
- second choice, and so on.)
- --
- Mark Brader "I conducted a Usenet poll ... on this subject ...
- Toronto Laura is single. By a 2-1 margin." -- Ken Perlow
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