Last week's Eye Poll caught us by surprise early in the week as challenger Paulette de'Pascal opened up a 20 point lead over incumbent Brad Winter in an Eye Poll that saw even more votes (468) than the mayoral job approval poll (465) that we ran back in June. Since the numbers seemed strange, we started to look at our site statistics and found not only unusually high traffic, but large numbers of visitors coming from City of Albuquerque IP addresses.
We started to suspect that Captain Payne had set his course on pushing the Eye Poll. It wasn't until later in the week that we received confirmation from a couple of our Eyes that indeed there was a quite effort to push last week's Eye Poll. The push didn't surprise us as it's happened before when the Almighty Mayor himself blasted out an email to his campaign supporters urging them to vote for his approval. His gambit failed by 10 points (view the results here).
What to do? We admit that our Eye Poll is unscientific at best. However, we do want it to represent the opinions of Eye Readers as accurately as possible. So... in order to achieve that goal, we decided to do two things.
First, we changed the security parameters of the poll in order to make it harder for one person to pump up the votes for a specific candidate. Second, we decided to run the district 4 poll again; which seemed only fair in light of last week's push.
So... this week we feature two Eye Polls - a district 6 poll, and a repeat of the district 4 poll. Don't forget to vote!
6 comments:
funny how you react when a vote doesn't go your way. Live with it.
The 5th & 11th floor should get back to work instaed of spending time with this.
bullies all of you (winter's group and this blog)
to paulette supporter: don't assume winter's people are the only ones writing on these blogs. i've never met or talked to the man. A lot of people in this town know Paulette - and know a lot of crap about her. She gets around and most of it ain't good! She has made her own bed (a lot) and now she has to lie in it. She chose the public path - nobody else!
Brad's a dirtbag !
So you fixed it and and she still won the poll you fascist lying tabloid. Go work for FOX news. They love your twisted lying kind of journalism.
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