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DIY Polling Shows Bush, Kerry Will Win

Posted by michael on from the as-accurate-as-any-other dept.

cheese_wallet writes "7-eleven has a poll conducted by the choice of cup their customers pick for their coffee. They can pick a Kerry cup, a Bush cup, or a Third Party/No Opinion cup (interesting combo). Although it is considered completely unscientific, it polls millions of people and gets past the cell phone barrier. You can see the current stats." And reader Noryungi writes "This is very tongue-in-cheek... Harry's Bar, in Paris (France) has been conducting straw polls for the past 80 years, and has been wrong only once, in 1976. So... who is the winner, according to Harry's Bar poll, for the 2004 US election? Kerry. And not by small numbers either, Kerry wins 56% to 44% in the latest Straw Vote, which is a larger margin than all the other US-based pollsters."

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  1. They predicted 2000??? by Wraithlyn · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "Although billed as unabashedly unscientific and unofficial, we were surprised at just how accurate the 7-Election poll proved in the 2000 election."

    I wonder what exactly they mean by this. What exactly was there that was predictable about 2000? It seems they could claim 'accurate' results either way... if they showed Gore winning, they could claim to mirror the popular vote. If they showed Bush winning... they accurately predicted what? A supreme court decision? Hmm.. I coulda sworn I was going somewhere with this.

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  2. Re:Kerry Wins in France by Sevn · · Score: 2, Insightful

    More specifically, it shows that the kind of people that can afford travel, or with the desire to get out there and experience alternate world views first hand tend to be the kind of people that would vote for Kerry.

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  3. Re:Kerry Wins in France by straybullets · · Score: 2, Insightful

    the kind of person that would want to go to France and hear all the crap they are spouting over there

    Phew, thanks you so much, i knew all these talks about disappearing mail ballots, vanishing iraki explosives, escaping the militry service but still being presented as an Ubber War Leader and all and all were nothing but. crap

    Now i can safely crawl back to my home cinema room and forget about reality.

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