{"id":3657,"date":"2005-03-04T12:28:13","date_gmt":"2005-03-04T16:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2005\/03\/04\/poll-taxed\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:57:55","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:57:55","slug":"poll-taxed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2005\/03\/04\/poll-taxed\/","title":{"rendered":"poll taxed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The online poll by the Kingston [NY] Freeman<\/EM> that we described <\/FONT>yesterday<\/FONT><\/A> received over <\/FONT>41,000 responses<\/FONT><\/A>,  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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and not the usual 500 to 2000 votes from the paper’s readers.   The poll asked whether readers believe Rep.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Maurice Hinchey’s <\/FONT>claim<\/FONT><\/A> that Karl Rove was behind the phony documents given to CBS concerning Pres.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Bush’s <\/FONT>military record.   The result of the Hinchey\/Rove poll: 59.5 percent agreed with the Democratic<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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congressman’s <\/FONT>theory while 40.5 percent did not. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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A <\/FONT>Freeman<\/EM> article<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/A> today (March 4, 2005) says:<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Political insiders believe the unusually high number of responses was the result of voting by <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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operative bloggers from both the left and right. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Freeman Publisher Ira Fusfeld said that, in the past, local readers generally have participated <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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honestly in the polls and enabled the system to gauge public opinion accurately. . .  . <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Fusfeld said the level of participation in the Hinchey poll is telling.  “What’s sad is that in <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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today’s political climate, even a poll as relatively benign as this one became the subject of a <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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tug of war between the left and right, both of which thought this was so important that they <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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couldn’t let the other side ‘win,'” Fusfeld said. <\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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\"graph  Hinchey’s aide Dan Ahouse wrote to several webloggers asking them to get <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the word out to join the poll.  In <\/FONT>Ahouse’s letter,<\/FONT><\/A> he asserts “this weekend, the right-wing <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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bloggers began to flood the poll and now the results are vastly one-sided,” and concludes:<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“I’m writing to ask for your help in stopping this manipulation of public <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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opinion about our Congressman.  Please forward this information to <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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anyone interested in standing up to the right-wing distortion and ask <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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they they register their opinion in the poll.”<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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In response, “mdmc” posted the Ahouse letter at <\/FONT>DemocraticUnderground<\/FONT><\/A>, with comments, <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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and it was repeated by <\/FONT>lowbridge at freeRepublic<\/FONT><\/A>, including  “Please help the BIG MO take <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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on Kkkarl and <\/FONT>the Orwellian right wing press. <\/FONT>Please vote in this online poll.”   <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT>Chicflick at MyDD<\/FONT><\/A> <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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opined:  <\/FONT>“Important we show those as courageous as Hinchey that <\/FONT>we have their backs!”   Mozarky2 <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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left a message for lowbridge saying: “I don’t know, or care whether it’s true or not, but <\/FONT>let me <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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tell you, it’s been fun.”  Talk about a <\/FONT>b.s. moment<\/FONT><\/A>.   <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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You<\/FONT> can only imagine how proud I am that my fellow Dems\/liberals have achieved this great <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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victory.  And very pleased to see that they have such important things on their minds. <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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a new year begins–
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naughty child–
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Kobayashi Issa<\/EM><\/FONT><\/STRONG><\/A><\/FONT> <\/FONT>translated by <\/FONT>David G. Lanoue<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A><\/FONT>  <\/FONT> <\/FONT><\/PRE><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
                                                                                                                                          The online poll by the Kingston [NY] Freeman that we described yesterday received over 41,000 responses,  and not the usual 500 to 2000 votes from the paper’s readers.   The poll asked whether readers believe Rep. Maurice Hinchey’s claim that Karl Rove was behind the phony documents given to CBS concerning Pres. Bush’s military record.   The result of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-WZ","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13339,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657\/revisions\/13339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}