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Donald Trump supporters artificially manipulated the results of online polls to create a false narrative that the Republican nominee won the first presidential debate on Monday night.
The efforts originated from users of the pro-Trump Reddit community r/The_Donald and 4chan messaged boards, which bombarded around 70 polls, including those launched by Time, Fortune, and CNBC.
In this latest incarnation, multiple Reddit users enlisted the Trump-supporting masses on r/The_Donald, which has over 200,000 subscribers, by posting dozens of online polls that are vulnerable to vote brigading, bots, and other forms of manipulation that make these non-scientific surveys notoriously unreliable.
Polls that were not open to public voting consistently put Clinton ahead of Trump. In a flash poll by Public Policy Polling, Clinton led Trump 51 to 40. A CNN/ORC poll conducted immediately following the debate found significantly stronger support for Clinton, who topped Trump 62 to 27.
http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/trump-clinton-debate-online-polls-4chan-the-donald/
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 28 2016, @07:33AM
If the Republicans want to win they need to move towards the center. Jettison:
-- the religious nuts - teaching creationism as science is nuts.
-- the gun nuts -- agree on a sensible gun policy that ban assault rifles and large magazines
-- the fossil fuel nuts -- oil will be around for a long time but they don't need to make it so easy. Global warming is a fact and changing the composition of the atmosphere can't be good.
-- the abortion nuts -- that ship sailed and shouldn't return as the majority of Americans have expressed.
-- my way or the highway -- you will never get everything you want. Compromise.
-- war on drugs -- marijuana is coming and it is Better than alcohol
-- war on immigration -- these are your future voters, embrace them, they are not bad people.
Move towards:
--fiscal conservatism -- but pay for what you buy. If you want a war, raise taxes to pay for it.
-- sensible health care -- nobody should die or suffer because they don't have money
-- making sure corporations a act responsibly -- I see them as sharks eating the little people.
-- narrowing the difference between rich and poor -- we need classes, but a growing gap didn't work out so well for the French in 1789, or the Russians in 1917. The one percent's can't spend what they have now, and don't need more.
-- a sensible education system -- everybody doesn't need to be college educated, but this country needs to be smarter overall. Learning a trade should be easier.
And don't be so mean
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 28 2016, @09:55AM
Okay.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 28 2016, @03:06PM
FU, socialist. You idiots think you are going to be able to destroy america without bloodshed? You can't steal enough to prepare enough to get away with it. All the bootlickers who are supporting this attempt will be eradicated as the moles they are.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 28 2016, @09:03PM
Now, Bernard, remember what we talked about.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 29 2016, @02:30AM
Really well summarized, completely agree.
Until they start on this list, I don't see myself ever voting Republican. It sucks, because I am as pro government reduction as they come.
At the end of the day the government's job is basic protection & facilitation of commerce the country.