Guess You Can't Keep Fooling All of the People All of the Time...

[furrbear]

Quick Vote (On the CNN Home Page at the moment)

John McCain's request to delay campaigning and this week's debate is:

• An effort to help the economy
• A political gimmick
• Something else
  

Results at the moment:

• An effort to help the economy ... 24%
• A political gimmick ... 71%
• Something else ... 5%

Comments

[teddyb.livejournal.com]

The poll was gone by the time I got to the site, but I was fascinated by the reaction of people commenting on an article about the proposal to postpone one or more of the debates.

Given how close recent polls have been, I kind of figured reaction would be mixed.

Boy, was I wrong! Out of the 50 or so comments I read, 2 or 3 were from "ditto-heads" who just posted the usual childish insults aimed at Obama. But the overwhelming majority were from people who sounded furious or cynical or both, and the nearly universal reaction was that this was a cheap gimmick that makes McCain look very, very, very bad.

Quick Vote on the CNN Home Page

[ursine1.livejournal.com]

On the international edition the Quick Vote was about whether you agreed with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the US's position in the world was deteriorating . The vote was about 80% in agreement with that sentiment.

Chuck, no real surprise there