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sibelian
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October 15, 2015
Why would we assume they aren't "biased" and online polls are?
Why would publically and very obviously deleting large numbers of comments opposing a mainstream position on a mainstream news source's site make the position more tenable rather than less?
If DU's membership tends heavily towards the baby boomer demographic, and support for Sanders in online polls here repeatedly makes him ten times as popular as Clinton, why would one assume that online polls elsewhere are being pumped by "kids"?
If online polls are unscientific, why bother posting them on DU?
When people don't have a position to maintain but know they must maintain the appearance of a position, what do they do?
How are media pundits "scientific"?
Why would we assume they aren't "biased" and online polls are?
Why would publically and very obviously deleting large numbers of comments opposing a mainstream position on a mainstream news source's site make the position more tenable rather than less?
If DU's membership tends heavily towards the baby boomer demographic, and support for Sanders in online polls here repeatedly makes him ten times as popular as Clinton, why would one assume that online polls elsewhere are being pumped by "kids"?
If online polls are unscientific, why bother posting them on DU?
When people don't have a position to maintain but know they must maintain the appearance of a position, what do they do?
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