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Old 09-18-2001, 05:46 PM
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Am I going crazy?

About an hour ago (unless I’m losing my mind, admittedly, a distinct possibility) when I looked at a rather unscientific poll at cnn.com asking the question How long would you support military action?, the options were
A few months
6 months - 1 year
1 – 5 years
As long as it takes


with a large majority voting for “as long as it takes” but when I look at the same page now, the options are
A few months
6 months - 1 year
As long as it takes
I don't support military action


Did anybody else see the poll the same way that I think that I saw it? Nearly a hundred thousand people have answered; did CNN change the wording of the poll after it started????
 
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Old 09-18-2001, 11:22 PM
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I saw it again and took a screen shot of two windows open at the same time. The question and the results don’t match:



That is of course not proof that I’m not going crazy for other reasons.
 
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Old 09-18-2001, 11:35 PM
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Hey, it clearly says the poll is not scientific.

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who reflects on the time spent by 200,000 + people in voting in the poll-that-makes-no-sense
 
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Old 09-19-2001, 01:31 AM
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Damn. There's no option for Hank the Drunken Angry Dwarf.
 
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Damn. There's no option for Hank the Drunken Angry Dwarf.
May he rest in peace.

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Old 09-19-2001, 10:28 AM
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That's not the first time CNN has altered the poll questions.

When I took the information for the thread about what the US should do if Afghanistan doesn't hand over Osama bin Laden the questions were worded differently on different CNN pages.
 
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