Online Polls: Update
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OK, I’m not convinced that these online polls mean much . . . but I do think that the more votes Gov. Romney gets, the more people who encounter such polls will be interested in finding out about Romney if they are currently uninformed. It’s also nice to show that Romney has strong support from the online community.
Also, since we can vote in many of the online polls daily, I’ve added
a new feature to my Iowans for Romney blogsite. On the right sidebar, under the
small picture of Mitt’s Turnaround book, is a new heading titled:
“VOTE FOR MITT: Online Polls!”
I’ll try to keep it updated. Consider going there to vote for Mitt as part of your daily routine . . . that way we’ll stay ahead in some of these polls and not need to play catch-up. Please inform me if you know of other online polls so I can get them on the “Poll-roll.”
One that we’re just a few votes away from winning (and should be closing tomorrow evening is the one at Strawpoll’08 (the first column)
Jeff
August 31st, 2006 at 10:15 am
It’s amazing how the straw polls http://www.strawpoll08.com/ were dramatically affected by the call of support from the blog site.
On the 29th of August, Romney had less than 324 votes and now he has 344 votes for the month.
The Junk poll got about a 1000 hits, and the daily polls well by 10:00 there already 10 plus votes.
So I’m guessing there most of the Romney supporters visit this website.
It will be quite interesting to see the numbers grow and grow and grow.
September 1st, 2006 at 9:47 am
Does anyone have any idea how past online polls reflected with the real outcome? Online polls are really something new to me, and I’m wondering how comparable are they with reality.
Any ideas?
September 3rd, 2006 at 5:26 pm
Deg,
Online polls probably don’t mean a whole lot and aren’t predictive of much. What they can show is the level of “devotedness” of supporters. Also, for someone like Romney who still has poor name recognition in general, the more of these he wins, the more people on both sides will take him seriously as a contender (in a small way).