Granted, it's not scientific.

But at least when I post a poll on Topix, it gets responses (unlike here). Here is the result of my latest poll there.

P.S. You can vote in the NEXT poll here.

Why the disparity?

Multiblogger Kevin wonders over at Ten Second News why the disparity exists between Ron Paul's Internet popularity and real-world poll numbers, and partially explains it.

A couple of other reasons I can think of include the undeniable fact that many of the "real-world" polls don't even include Ron Paul. They artificially limit your choices in the primary to Romney, Giuliani, sometimes McCain and/or Thompson, and once in awhile Huckabee. Dr. Paul can't have a very high poll showing if he's not included in the polls, now can he? The "real-world" polls don't seem to be any realer than the virtual polls.

Another reason is that many of Ron Paul's supporters are technogeeks who don't have landlines. Surveys don't call cellphones, so it's not surprising that candidates with less technosavvy supporters are over-represented.

Apples and iguanas.

Another one of those little snippets that bounces around nearly constantly in my head is "Answers can be incorrect, questions can't."





Obviously, it refers to pure questions, not questions paired with statements such as "What time was it when you were beating your wife?"

I may have to rethink the whole thing, however.





The Baxter Bulletin has a poll up with a question so flawed that I don't know it CAN be fixed.

It draws a moral equivalency between government and property owners. It supposes that the two are either equally legitimate in enacting such a ban or equally illegitimate.

Of COURSE property owners should be able to institute such a ban in what is, after all, THEIR property.

But the government has no business telling the property owner what he can or cannot allow on his own property.

It would be akin to a parent saying "MTV is not allowed in this house." Does the government have an equal right to step in and say "MTV is not allowed in your house"? I don't think so.

On a barely related note, they haven't emailed me an activation code yet so I can post this point as a comment on their story.

Here are the results of our LAST web poll . . .

. . . which was up for, like, a year because I was too damn lazy to change it.

Click pic to embiggen.

We here at Arkanssouri loves us some Ron Paul supporters.

I've created an online poll that actually encourages input from Ron Paul's supporters. Take a look over in the left-hand column, about halfway down. And vote (once per person, please).