Some are currently showing 98% in Edwards’ favour or other fantastic numbers, and the margins are growing as votes pour in.

From comments at Eschaton (Atrios) :

For you AOL people out there, here’s how you multi-vote in the fox news poll. Vote. Then go to your settings button and hit internet options. Delete your cookies, temporary internet files and your history. Then reload the foxnews page and vote again. - Mark Wade

Newsday poll
Cheney 3.6%
Edwards 96.4 %
It is a debacle and a rout.
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Even the freepoids ain’t bothering to freep these.
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The Tokyo Rosies have taken their blankies and gone home.
- MinieB9

It appears that the Fox news people “froze” their poll once Edwards opened up a 5 point lead. The numbers haven’t changed for the last five minutes, despite my 10 votes. - Mark Wade

Okay, here’s what we need to do. remember 4 years ago when Gore initially won that debate but later lost it because of all the spin over sighs?
Right now, regardless of whether an outlet is calling it win, lose, or draw for the good guys, we need to make this all about Cheney’s lies: never met Edwards, never claimed an Iraq-Al Quaeda connection, am actually human . . .
We have all the tools at our hands, thanks to Kos, Atrios, et al - LPSS

With firefox you can go to a different page - click “tools” then “privacy” clear the cookies, cache, and history - then paste in the previous page and you can vote again - anon

Freepin’ polls is hard work…
“I got blisters on my fingers.”
Oh, and BTW, Edwards kicked “bigtime” ass. - Central Scrutinizer

Check out <a href=”http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/06/content_2056601.htm”this story from Google saying that, according to instant online polls, Edwards cleaned Cheney’s clock! - Peter

need some help at wusatv9.com (DC CBS affiliate). We’re getting trounced there.
You can also give some love to nbc4.com, the DC NBC affiliate, where we’re trouncing the freepers. Neither the ABC nor fox affiliates have polls on the debate. - bunny

Latest results on the Akron Beacon Journal poll (that’s Ohio for non-Buckeyes) show Edwards with slight 98% to 2% lead out of 40,000 votes! - buckeye

Skewering these polls is imoportant.Especially at the local television stations.These stations broadcast the numbers morning noon and night to the local viewer.These viewers have no clue who’s doing the voting,all they see is that Edwards got a HUGE majority of the votes and so he/she must have missed someting and should recheck his/her thinking.
I am all for freeping these polls,as long as they tilt in my direction. - smalfish

It worked! Yippee! - Cheney Is Evil

thehim wrote: “but what’s with the emphasis on online polls? What does it matter?”

There’s several good reasons to skew the polls. first off, hey, they’re open to the public, and we’re the public, aren’t we? Why shouldn’t we express our views?
Secondly, many members of the press will read off the results and conclude that we won decisively. People like voting for winners, and we want to look like winners.
Thirdly, some people will eventually notice we’re winning all of the online polls. Online polls are moronic. They don’t measure real public sentiment, merely which side can get its side out. I think discrediting the concept of online polls is a noble goal in itself.
Fourthly, closely related to the last point, it shows party discipline. Dems are historically AWFUL at getting more than three people to do anything more complicated than ordering a pizza. It’s good for us to practice working together and to give the media the impression that we have a solid front (even as we continue to fight with each other behind the scenes.) - bunny

Keep hitting that Newsday poll hard!
When I first viewed the results of it, Edwards was in the 93-97% range on each question.
Now, Cheney is barely leading in all of them. The right’s spin machine has gone to town on it. - Forrest