OK. You can grade Obama as President:
Live Votes on msnbc.com
The differences between online surveys and scientific polls
One week in the middle of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, more than 200,000 people took part in an msnbc.com Live Vote that asked whether President Clinton should leave office. Seventy-three percent said yes. That same week, an NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll found that only 34 percent of about 2,000 people who were surveyed thought so.
The differences between online surveys and scientific polls
One week in the middle of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, more than 200,000 people took part in an msnbc.com Live Vote that asked whether President Clinton should leave office. Seventy-three percent said yes. That same week, an NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll found that only 34 percent of about 2,000 people who were surveyed thought so.
More recently, in an msnbc.com survey conducted after a televised debate in the run-up to the New Hampshire primary, when asked “Who stood out from the pack?” 76 percent of the more than 55,000 people who responded chose Rep. Ron Paul of Texas.
You can read the whole piece online but here is the bottom line
... To begin with, the people who respond to online surveys choose to do so — they are not randomly selected and asked to participate, but instead make the choice to read a story about a certain topic and then vote on a related question.
They may be highly motivated supporters of a particular candidate who are determined to show their support for him or her in any way they can.
And while Live Votes are designed to allow only one vote per user, someone who wants to vote more than once can use another computer or another Internet account.
Live Votes are not intended to be a scientific sample of opinion. Instead, they are part of the same dialogue that takes place in our online chat sessions: a way to share your views on the news with your fellow users and with msnbc.com writers and editors.
They may be highly motivated supporters of a particular candidate who are determined to show their support for him or her in any way they can.
And while Live Votes are designed to allow only one vote per user, someone who wants to vote more than once can use another computer or another Internet account.
Live Votes are not intended to be a scientific sample of opinion. Instead, they are part of the same dialogue that takes place in our online chat sessions: a way to share your views on the news with your fellow users and with msnbc.com writers and editors.
FD:
I suspect it has something to do with getting advertising "hits" on the website, too. Vote if you want to, but "it is not a scientific poll." It is a survey.
Makes you feel good. Here is your sticker.
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