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Хahar 🤔
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« on: June 09, 2008, 12:33:01 AM »

Here's a thought.

One of us, who's good at web designing, should make a site that looks like it's one of a legit polling outfit. Then, we should start making up numbers. Completely out of the blue. Just something that looks plausible. Then we write up fancy press releases and send them out to blogs and media outlets, wait for some lazy story writer to pick it up, and then it begins to spread. We'd probably get found out after a few weeks, but we'd get a kick out of it for a while.

We could also then see if we get our made up numbers more accurate than actual polling outfits (looking at you PPP, ARG and Zogby).

This actually makes sense.

Alcon, it's your job to register the domain.
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Хahar 🤔
Xahar
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Political Matrix
E: -6.77, S: 0.61

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« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2008, 10:49:30 PM »

How come I didn't get one? Cry
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Хahar 🤔
Xahar
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Political Matrix
E: -6.77, S: 0.61

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« Reply #2 on: June 16, 2008, 01:52:37 AM »


Soon.
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Хahar 🤔
Xahar
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Political Matrix
E: -6.77, S: 0.61

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« Reply #3 on: June 17, 2008, 01:19:02 AM »


There already is a test one for Washington. It looks really professional.
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Хahar 🤔
Xahar
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Posts: 41,731
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Political Matrix
E: -6.77, S: 0.61

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« Reply #4 on: June 17, 2008, 03:39:22 PM »


I'm not going to post it in public, but I sent it to you and Ben. Anyone else interested should contact Alcon.
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Хahar 🤔
Xahar
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Posts: 41,731
Bangladesh


Political Matrix
E: -6.77, S: 0.61

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« Reply #5 on: June 17, 2008, 04:51:12 PM »

What was the redirect problem?
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Хahar 🤔
Xahar
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Posts: 41,731
Bangladesh


Political Matrix
E: -6.77, S: 0.61

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« Reply #6 on: June 17, 2008, 06:09:36 PM »


Before I was having trouble getting the domain to point to a subfolder; the DNC was just defaulting to goldengiven.net instead of goldengiven.net/poll/

I assume it's fixed now. When do you plan to have the thing released?

This thread should be deleted to cover our tracks.

First we need to plan.
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