CNN gun poll - Supreme Court on Chicago handgun ban

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bpl said:
I tried using 2 laptops from my home and the total did not change.
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Your ISP assigns the same IP to your router in the house that connects to them, so 10 computers will still count as the same computer. MAC addresses are not transmitted, only IP and host. In this case, it ends at your router. All your computers appear as the same computer to the world.
 
Anyone else find it kind of odd, given the nature of these types of informal polls, that the split has held at 47/53, even though the votes have doubled even since I hit it 2 hours ago. Hmmmmmm.........
 
Voted, still 53-47. I suspect it will finish around there too. But CNN is mostly anti-gun audience so that's not bad at all. If Fox does exact same poll, it will be like 15-85. Country is marching to the right on this issue, that's for sure.
 
Hmm, an extra 10000 clicks, and the ratio is still exactly the same.

I smell a bull that is not housebroken.
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Ditto...


Still 53 to 47 against us.


IE, poll is like pretty much everything CNN.....crap.
 
Don't waste your time folks.

IF the numbers were to swing our way....CNN simply would not report it.

These unscientific "polls" prove nothing and are useless in terms of informing people or changing their minds.
 
dec41971 said:
Your ISP assigns the same IP to your router in the house that connects to them, so 10 computers will still count as the same computer. MAC addresses are not transmitted, only IP and host. In this case, it ends at your router. All your computers appear as the same computer to the world.
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They are probably using a cookie to determine whether you have already voted. That means dragging out the laptop should work just fine.

-Chris
 
Voting more than once doesn't sound "high road." The day is still young and more members will see this thread and help us out.
 
Flintknapper said:
Don't waste your time folks.

IF the numbers were to swing our way....CNN simply would not report it.

These unscientific "polls" prove nothing and are useless in terms of informing people or changing their minds.
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I disagree. If we come out ahead either of two things should happen:

1. We take the poll - clear perception of "victory"
2. They take the poll down - they lose their perception of "victory"

Win-win for us, but you've got to play to win ...
 
IMO, this is poll is about as meaningful on CNN as if they put it on the NRA site. They are playing to their audience.

I have little to no faith in the media, their polls, their reporting. Just go to google news and see how different media outlets report the same story. Look for any listing of articles on the case before the supreme court.

Here are some sample headlines:
"Supreme Court, gun control, and the Second Amendment: a reckoning"
"Daley fires blanks on the Chicago gun ban"
"Preserving the right to regulate guns"
"Gun control"
"Supreme Court Weighs Chicago's Strict Gun Ban"

They will say whatever they want to sell paper, get ad revenue, etc.

It does not hurt or take more than a second to vote in the poll so I would go ahead and do so but I do not hold much stock in the outcome of said poll.
 
Have you ever considered that, somewhere on the Brady Bunch's website or sister blog, there's a note or a letter or a video from someone urging the people who visit there to hit this same poll from that side of things?

Ugly thought.

Still 51-49.
 
Can't find it, all I see is a quickvote for "How do you feel about the issue of children in bars?"
 
Yep. If we were beginning to pull ahead, CNN might have pulled the poll because it didn't reflect the reality that they want to disseminate.
 
CNN has become a fringe news channel, with fewer viewers than the rabidly-partisan MSNBC.

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Every now and then, a poll like this floats around Facebook, and the results are surprisingly almost always heavily "pro-gun".
 
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