Ron Paul Poll Spamming Getting Out of Hand

DadsDream said
Your lack of faith in the abilities of hackers is astonishing and misinformed. :e-nerd:

US NEWS & WORLD REPORT
Ron Paul's Online Rise
May 9, 2007 | 3:01 PM ET | Permanent Link

To those who say the Internet arcs toward the trivial, try this on for size: Currently, the most searched-for phrase on the blog aggregate site Technorati.com is Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul.

Paris Hilton is No. 5.

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http://www.usnews.com/usnews/blogs/news_blog/070509/ron_pauls_online_rise.htm

Again please provide some evidence. I find it interesting you are defaulting to a scenario that takes so much of a leap of faith and requires so many questions to be anwsered to make it any way believable. And that you are convinced - even though you didnt watch the debates - that there is no way Ron Paul could win or win by this much. Even if you dont believe it 100% you are still willing to take all this time to search and create threads arguing from that point of view, which infrences at least some sympathy toward that view.

Why do we have no allegations or proof of any tampering? Why is this not just a slightlly inflated reaction to a very strong appearence at a debate? Why is it that we never hear of any other cases where mainstream poll manipulation is happening? Why is the fact he has a lot of devoted fans reason to assume the polls are hacked? Why is it then that Obama who arguablly has an even larger internet following, isnt winning online polls by a comparable margin?

I mean I could go on and on but the fact is there is no evidence of tampering and the assumption being spouted by some requires too many leaps of faith for my taste. My conclusion, he won the debate to any smart person and the polls are probably slightly larger to his side because of his online following but it is no more of an influence on those polls then Obama's or Mike Gravel's strong following.