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Akoto

(4,266 posts)
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 03:03 PM Sep 2012

'Unskewed' polls website associated with plainly skewed guy.

Last edited Tue Sep 25, 2012, 03:58 PM - Edit history (3)

I read in another post about a new website, unskewedpolls.com, which claims to show the 'real' polls going against President Obama (see the Hill story here: http://tinyurl.com/94mtlgx ). Not surprisingly, the fellow behind this site appears to have a distinctly skewed view of the President, if the associated registrant and the pollster are one in the same. Here is a list of domains registered to his name and/or email address - and mind you, he did not request registrar anonymity, so all of this is public record:

unskewedpolls.com
obamatard.com
rightnewsnow.com
redstatenh.com
occupyviolence.org

This above is just a sampling of the domain names associated with his email address. He doesn't still own all of the ones I found. Of those he does own, they don't all have actual sites up, but they remain in his ownership under the domain registrar. The 'rightnewsnow.com' one pretty well exemplifies the bias associated with our 'unskewed' pollster.

As the administrative and technical contacts are both the same guy, I can only assume he is involved, but there is the possibility that he's just a host. It seems unlikely, however, given that I can find no associated moderate or leftie sounding domains.

EDIT: I wanted to clarify that, while all of the above mentioned domains are registered to the same guy, they might be operated by someone else. I think it's unlikely, but full disclosure that it could be possible. There is nevertheless an obvious right wing trend.

EDIT #2: Well, I can at least confirm that the registrant (Dean Chambers) does operate and/or heavily participate in rightnewsnow.com, as his name is listed right on the front page with an anti-Obama story. He has a plethora of other such articles listed on the same site.

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