March 10, 2004
New AFA.NET Poll
Remember the American Family Association Online’s attempt to gather a poll indicating opposition to gay marriage so that they could forward it to Congress?
There’s a recap of it at Alas, a Blog to jog your memory, but basically the results went 2-1 in the opposite direction that they had hoped, so they predictably decided not to forward the poll to Congress after all.
Well, they’re at it again, sending out e-mails to alert their members about their new poll on “Whom do you favor for the next President of the United States?”, offering Kerry, Bush, and Nader as choices. Unfortunately, my choice, the Libertarian Party candidate (it was Harry Browne in 2000) wasn’t listed, so I decided to pick Kerry just to piss them off.
As of right now, here are the results so far:
| John Kerry | 90.04% | 42,675 vote(s) |
|---|---|---|
| George Bush | 3.80% | 1,799 vote(s) |
| Ralph Nader | 6.16% | 2,921 vote(s) |
That’s right. Nader is ahead of Bush.
Of course, the last poll garnered well over 500,000 votes, so who knows? But clearly, somebody with a little lower-than-average computer literacy didn’t think to send the e-mails notifying people about this new poll to just the people who voted against gay marriage in the last poll (which was clearly their intent). I myself of course support gay marriage on libertarian principles, and yet received this e-mail.
Oops.
If you want to vote, click here (e-mail address required).
March 10, 2004 01:16 PM in Politics | Permalink