With just under 1,000 votes cast, the unscientific online IPR 14-candidate presidential poll stands as follows: Charles Jay (Boston Tea) 28.2%, Bob Barr (Libertarian) 17.7%, Chuck Baldwin (Constitution) 13.2%, John McCain (Republican) 8.0%, Ralph Nader (Independent) 7.9%, Barack Obama (Democrat) 7.5%, Tom Stevens (Objectivist) 5.6%, Alan Keyes (America’s Independent) 4.3%, Cynthia McKinney (Green) 2.2%, Brian Moore (Socialist) 0.6%, Gloria La Riva (Socialism and Liberation) 0.5%, Gene Amondson (Prohibition) 0.1%, Roger Calero (Socialist Workers) 0.1%, Ted Weill (Reform) 0.0%, Someone else 2.2%, Will not vote 2.0%.
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to those following this poll, three things: (1) Charles Jay has now passed Ralph Nader again for first place, with 30%; (2) the poll cannot be jiggered at least by conventional means (out of curiosity, I checked; it doesn’t allow double votes from the same ISP or login); (3) just because it’s posted at the BTP site does not mean it’s been tampered with … only more of that those who frequent that site may have voted.
I suspect most who vote for Boston Tea or Objectivist, who will be up in the thousands in the election, read these types of sites, so it makes sense.
Wait, I think this poll is posted at the Boston Tea Party website. That would explain it.
Good for Charles Jay if he’s getting over 500 votes from IPR readers. You guys are a lot more libertarian than I thought. Unless, like darolew suggests, there are shenanigans.
I call shenanigans on Thomas Stevens. I mean, 9%? Seriously? That’s higher than Nader. That’s higher than Obama, and McCain too. Thomas Stevens is in fourth place on the IPR poll. In real life, he’s on the ballot in one state and has failed to demonstrate anything in the way of significant support.
The campaign, or one of its supporters, is probably trying to influence the poll (maybe through proxies); quite sad, considering it’s an unscientific poll with no real meaning.
I am glad this poll was done, I am still annoyed by the poll on revolutionbroadcasting that they put up before the debate last night that was stacked with Chuck Baldwin votes before the debate even started.
Pee in the chili?
So nice, RL, to see someone still wants to pee in the chili … I think the upside of this poll is how few people are willing to choke down their gag reflex and “vote LP” as they maybe always did, regardless of the candidate. This time, there may a somewhat significant showing for BTP, CJ and TLK
If you voted for a very obscure candidate (ie, Alan Keyes, one person voted for Gene Amondson, the Objectivist Party candidate, etc.) could you please speak up? I’m interested in who’s going to vote for these people. For someone like Charles Jay, 10% of his voters could have voted in that poll!
What surprises me is 5.6% for Tom Stevens and 4.3% for Alan Keyes. I mean, they’re even beating Cynthia McKinney (2.2%).
John McCain? Come on, people.