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Are the polls wrong about Kucinich?

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December 2003
Rob Kall OpEdNews.com 
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The tracking of the presidential primary candidate websites with stats from Alexa.com was invented by this author in the spring of 2003. By December, Alexa.com had begun posting a link to its own profile of candidate websites at the top of its home page. But the alexa.com ranking system uses the less accurate web site rank score. The moveon.org internet primary proved that reach per million was more accurate in predicting the winner. But even with the web site rank score, Dean is still in first and Kucinich is still in second place. Media companies, with often obvious partisan views, favoring Republican candidates, use polls with a few hundred people. It's clear that Alexa.com's massively larger 'poll sample' base contradicts the conventional pollsters.

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If you want to be able to easily check the website rankings of the different candidates you can click on the names in the chart above. If you want to be able to check any website you visit for its website ranking and other sites that visitors to that site also visit, you can download the alexa.com toolbar. Alexa.com is owned by Amazon and uses the same technology that Amazon uses to tell visitors which books they might be interested in based on other visitor responses. It is the toolbar which sends the message to Alexa.com that a visit was made to a website.

Rob Kall rob@opednews.com is editor of OpEdNews.com and founder organizer of the Futurehealth Winter Brain, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology Meeting. This article is copyright Rob Kall and originally published by opednews.com but permission is granted for reprint in print, email, blog or web media so long as this credit paragraph is attached.

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