Last night was the Vice Presidential debate. Today, web based polls seem confused about who won. Seems that the Democrats are encouraging their supporters to go out and hit those polls to push their candidate up. So now, (did you really need me to tell you this?) the Republicans are catching on. Two can play at that game. What does this mean? Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later. Those on-line polls, already known to be unscientific, are even less so. Some polls don't allow you to vote more than once, but there are ways around that. Most polls do not track individual IP addresses, but everyone knows that simply disabling cookies (or deleting cookies after each vote) is enough to render them as useless as voting by decibel meter at a pep rally.
So I would predict even more confusing results after Friday's debate. Now that both Republicans and Democrats will be hitting the on-line polls in droves, they won't even be worth reporting on. That probably won't stop people from reporting on it, but that's for another day.
The IEM is still favoring Bush in the popular vote, but just barely, and it has narrowed in the last week.
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