PBS Palin Poll

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PBS is doing one of those instant online polls to ask " America " if they think Sarah Palin is fit to be Vice President.

Here's the link: http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html

You don't have to enter your email address or anything, just click "YES or NO".

It is a tight poll. Go there and put in your 2cents......

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Voted.

Palin by 1 %. 50/49

NPR = No Public Responsibliity! They just request public support, added to their Government funding.

There is no question about Biden in the same light.

NPR is NPR!

RF 1

[JJ_BPK]

Do you think Sarah Palin is qualified to serve as Vice President of the United States?

Yes 50%
No 49%
Not Sure 0%

Done..

[Gypsy]

Done. Stats are the same as above...

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done.

same.

[PSM]

They're not telling how many have voted. It's been 50/49 all day with 1% MIA. I don't trust them.

Pat

[jamber97]

I think she's qualified to be Vice President .

Adapted from Scholastic News.



"The V.P.'s Job: The only duty the U.S. Constitution assigns the Vice President is to act as presiding officer of the Senate. But the Vice President also serves as ceremonial assistant to the President and is an important part of the President's administration.

The Second Highest Office: The Vice President is only "a heartbeat away" from becoming the President. He or she must be ready to become President or Acting President if anything happens to the President."


But judging from the interviews I've seen her do and the way she's being handled by the MCcain staff...she's not anywhere close to being prepared to be President. Hopefully she would be a very quick study.

[Sigaba]

When critics of Gov. Palin say she's not qualified to be on the ticket, I wonder about their frames of reference. The following questions sometimes serve as good diagnostic tools.

In the history of the modern American presidency (from McKinley on), how many vice presidents were ready from day one to assume the duties of president?

When one considers some of the vice presidents who were least prepared to assume the duties of the president, did their inexperience help or hurt their administrations?

When one considers the most qualified men (at least on paper) to assume the presidency, how many of them were well-served by their previous experiences?

[jamber97]

Originally Posted by Broadsword2004

The thing I don't get with this type of opinion/argument though is then you have to look at the alternative, Senator Obama, and well I don't see how he is anymore qualified at all. He has avoided any townhall debates with McCain so he seems to be afraid of tough questions.

If it was prior to McCain's VP selection, I could see making this argument, but as of now, I'd much prefer Governor Palin over Senator Obama.

MCcain didn't pick Palin because her qualifications were her strong suit. The fact that she's not qualified to be president has nothing to do with Obama. Have you seen her interviews? She's coached like all politicians are and she still doesn't have much clue. I think she's the salt of the earth and think she's a great person. I would even go as far to say that I would feel comfortable having her as a close friend and neighbor but President of the United States, no way.

I can think of a few women here in Colorado Springs that are carbon copies of her and her views that I would feel more comfortable with as president.

[Soft Target]

Originally Posted by PSM

They're not telling how many have voted. It's been 50/49 all day with 1% MIA. I don't trust them.

Pat

It's a PBS poll. 'nough said.

[Penn]

About The Sarah Palin Poll

From John Siceloff, Executive Producer, NOW on PBS
The Sarah Palin Poll
New and Improved - One User, One Vote.

I am writing in reference to the now famous "Palin poll" that appeared on the NOW on PBS homepage on September 5. It's no longer on the homepage; in fact, it's no longer a page that the online user can navigate to using menus, but hundreds of thousands of unique visitors are still accessing the poll and voting. How is that possible, and is that a good thing? More on that in a moment, after a side trip through the world of Internet "cookies."

PBS headquarters made the decision on September 22, to implement a cookie registration system on the Palin poll. That system is now part of the poll's inner code, and as of September 23, a user can only vote once per computer. PBS acted because the entire pbs.org site had been experiencing system overload due to massive accessing of the poll.

The poll asks the question, "Do you think that Sarah Palin is qualified to serve as Vice President of the United States?" The user answers clicks to answer "Yes" or "No." From September 5 to September 22, our software allowed online users to vote repeatedly. Sounds bad, right? But we at NOW had serious concerns about user privacy. "Cookies" are small text files placed on the user's system without that person's knowledge. Many computer users regard them as invasive.

Other possible fixes: we could have insisted on voters registering with their email addresses. But people could still vote several times using different email addresses. Or we could insist on a unique identifier - a user's social security number. This was clearly way over the line in violation of user privacy.

What are other media organizations doing? CNN.com does exactly what we had been doing—their polls allow multiple votes. The website of the newspaper USA Today also uses polls, called "USA TODAY Snapshot", but it employs the "cookie" approach to restrict multiple voting.

So, is the Palin poll now "scientific"? Absolutely not. It is still subject to large scale efforts on the left and the right to mobilize people to vote. The poll has become something of a Rorschach test, a tiny political marker in a tightly contested race. Over the past two weeks, the results of the poll see-sawed back and forth from a majority saying "No" to a majority saying, "Yes". At the moment the single-voter system was implemented, it was close to a tie: 50% say Sarah Palin is qualified to serve as Vice President, and 48% say no. Those results, in my view, are actually a measure of the mobilization and manipulation efforts by partisans on both sides. Now it will be all about mobilization, and less about manipulation. Blogs on the left and right are circulating viral emails with the exact address of the poll.

Some users have raised questions about our decision to collect opinion about Sarah Palin's qualifications in a poll. For a more complete discussion, take a moment to read the September 19 column of Michael Getler, the PBS Ombudsman.

The Palin poll is no longer in our home page rotation. We've moved on to other polls; each week you'll find one in the bottom right corner of our home page. The current poll asks, "Who do you trust more to fix the nation's economic mess—Barack Obama or John McCain?" It has already attracted a lot of interest.

And let's keep in mind the purpose of these weekly polls. They invite people who might not ordinarily come to our site to participate, and they encourage people to explore the deep journalism that is offered throughout NOW's nearly 10,000 web pages and 1,000 video streams. They don't provide the nuanced interpretation of our investigative journalism and deep content, but do provide a gateway to that content. An example: on Friday, September 19, we aired a one-hour special about women and politics on our broadcast. In the days since the air date, that online video has become the most viewed video on the PBS Election Site. For online users who are deeply interested in the issues raised during this election, the polls are only a starting point. There's a lot more to explore, to read, and to view.

I welcome your thoughts and comments about the Palin poll. Please use this specific Feedback Forum to share your opinions.

[Penn]

Jamber97
Is it possible you can explain how Obama is qualified to be president and that she's is not ?

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Penn
Conrad's you read more and found what I found. What prompted me to post this is an e-mail from one of my work-mates that went as follows:

PBS is doing one of those instant online polls to ask " America " if they think Sarah Palin is fit to be Vice President.

The GOP has launched a successful all out blitz to get Republicans to go on the site and click "Yes". As a result right now it looks like 62% of " America " thinks Palin is qualified. The Republicans are going to be milking this for all its worth in their press efforts.

We need to drive more Democrats and those opposed to Palin to the site to click "NO". Let's not give the GOP another easy weapon to put in their PR arsenal!

Here's the link: http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html

You don't have to enter your email address or anything, just click "yes or NO".

After discussing this with him I came to the conclusion that he only wants Obama is for the fact he is Black. Actually he said that.... He is a great friend and great Agent and very intelligent but that just statement and e-mail just blew me away.

The issue is not race, creed, sex, etc... It should be who is going to help the country in a beneficial manor. You are voting for President (McCain or Obama) Yest the VP is a "Heart Beat Away" but no one can see the future and you need to go with the best combo. The comparison of a Presidential runner to the other party's VP runner is apples and oranges. Oh She has run a Government, She has made those had Executive Decisions..etc..etc..etc...
Obama is a great speaker with the TelePrompTer and she is just getting her sea legs but you have to look at the whole package. This one is going to be close...in my opinion...

[Pete]

[QUOTE=jamber97;226402]..... Have you seen her interviews? She's coached like all politicians are and she still doesn't have much clue.....QUOTE]

Jamber;

I take it you viewed Charlie G's interview with her. Did it give you the impression that she was unqualified? Yes? Then it worked.

If you read the transcripts of the interview you'll find it was edited to appear that way. Compare it to the Obama interview. Did you read the discussion about him asking about "The Bush Doctrine"? If you watched the interview she was the one that appeared to stumble. In fact it was Charlie that didn't know what he was talking about.

This is an important election. The MSM is in the tank for Obama and force feeding swill to the public to get him in office. You have to gig deeper than the evening news for the truth.

[The Reaper]

What were JFK's vast leadership experience and qualifications against Nixon in 1960?

How about Carter in 1976?

Clinton in 1992?

Obama in 2008?

Palin is not running for POTUS, McCain is. The other side is offering a guy at the top of the ticket with a thinner leadership resume than Palin's.

I like her and think she could do a fine job as POTUS, if she had to, but that isn't the job she is running for. And I like the experience at the top of the Repub ticket a lot more than I do the Dims.

TR