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Peter Casey ahead in a Poll

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 245 ✭✭Cockadoodledoo


    Are ye not fond of the travellers up there :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    People will moan about that poll but sure it's not as if we've any other official ones to go on!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,472 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Firstly, there's two threads about the election/casey.

    Secondly, that's a web poll. It's no indicator of anything.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,472 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Omackeral wrote: »
    People will moan about that poll but sure it's not as if we've any other official ones to go on!

    That doesn't mean that because there's no official poll you can trust a web survey. That survey is inherently untrustable.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,199 ✭✭✭Firblog


    Grayson wrote: »
    Firstly, there's two threads about the election/casey.

    Secondly, that's a web poll. It's no indicator of anything.

    You don't say..


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,254 ✭✭✭Kevin Finnerty


    Is that the name of a new porn flick or something?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Grayson wrote: »
    That doesn't mean that because there's no official poll you can trust a web survey. That survey is inherently untrustable.

    I never said I trusted it. Merely making the point we've no official polls to go off this week. It's odd. Anyway, I feel online polls aren't representing the reality of the situation at all. Casey won't go near his numbers on these various web surveys.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,056 ✭✭✭applehunter


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    It was the Alt-right!

    Media already creating a narrative.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,686 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    The media are in severe danger of handing Casey the win. It is nothing short of astonishing that we have not seen a poll since the election got interesting.
    Its all right moaning about the accuracy of web polls but when the people in control pull all planned polls in case they show a growing support for a candidate they don't want to win, the web polls are all we have to go on.
    Personally, from seeing the arguments on various forums, MDH has strong numbers of online supporters and I feel he is every bit as likely to have his supporters mess with the polls in his favour too so they may not be too far away. Certainly thejournal.ie pole putting casey at 30%+ might not be too far off.

    I will be disappointed if he doesn't get 25 percent.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,472 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Omackeral wrote: »
    I never said I trusted it. Merely making the point we've no official polls to go off this week. It's odd. Anyway, I feel online polls aren't representing the reality of the situation at all. Casey won't go near his numbers on these various web surveys.

    I'd love to see the breakdown of the numbers on the poll that done here. How many are recent reg's? How many were dormant accounts? Where was the link shared?


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  • Grayson wrote: »
    I'd love to see the breakdown of the numbers on the poll that done here. How many are recent reg's? How many were dormant accounts? Where was the link shared?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 268 ✭✭ShaneC93


    mickdw wrote: »
    It is nothing short of astonishing that we have not seen a poll since the election got interesting.

    TheJournal did one only 1-2 days ago that saw like 20K votes:
    https://www.thejournal.ie/presidential-election-2-4302454-Oct2018/

    The results have stayed very similar even from when I first voted like 10 mins after it was first posted so it doesn't look like there has been much if any fake voting.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,686 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    ShaneC93 wrote: »
    TheJournal did one only 1-2 days ago that saw like 20K votes:
    https://www.thejournal.ie/presidential-election-2-4302454-Oct2018/

    The results have stayed very similar even from when I first voted like 10 mins after it was first posted so it doesn't look like there has been much if any fake voting.

    Im aware of that and specifically said that it might not be far off. That is an online Poll and the mainstream media regard that as flawed. When I said we had not seen a poll since things got interesting, I was referring to a scientific poll published in the main stream. Of course it suits the media agenda to still show Casey on 2%.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057921213

    No idea why you decided to create this when there's literally a poll thread.


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