Poll results show many would prefer Evans step down
In response to the question, "Rep. Lane Evans has indicated he intends to run for a 12th term. What do you think of this decision?"
The results of the entirely unscientific and fairly easily corrupted poll are:
1. Evans should step down gracefully, accepting our sincere gratitude for his long service, and back a new candidate. - 71 votes or 83.5%
2. Right of Evans and good for the party. - 13 votes or 15.3%
3. I don't know if it's best for Evans, but it's good for the party. - 1 vote or 1.2%
4. Not thrilled, but he's the best candidate we could have. - 0 votes or 0.0%
Total votes cast: 85
The poll ran 3 days, July 8th through 10th
While the results only indicate the views of some visitors here, they're fairly strong. It appears that if the truth were known, not many are entirely thrilled at the prospect of Evans hanging on and mounting yet another campaign.Discuss
posted by The Inside Dope @ 7/11/2005
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7 Comments:
I appreciate the comments which disagree with the poll.
As I try to make perfectly clear, this poll is a reflection of only those who vote in it (which is of course, only from a pool of people who visit the site, which is of course, NOT representative of say, the pool of likely voters)and is subject to a person or persons skewing the results by voting repeatedly.
Bearing both of those factors in mind, readers may take it for whatever they feel it's worth. But no one is saying it's the gold standard for polling. ha!
And as for the suggestion that anyone would use this in ads... well, I think they'd be pretty dumb to even consider doing that.
This just reflects the fact that there are some out there who feel that it's probably time for Lane to step down in favor of another candidate.
This should come as a shock to no one.
But as to it reflecting actual sentiment out there... no one can say with any certainty.
Perhaps it just reflects unhappiness with Evans' decision among party activists who would otherwise not dare to breath the sentiment in public?
Again, impossible to say, but take from it what you will, bearing in mind at all times that this poll is a reflection of only those who vote in it (NOT a random sample.)and is fairly easy to manipulate by a person or persons skewing the results by voting repeatedly.
Maybe Someday... If McNeil is mentioning his win in the poll here, that's not of concern. I'm sure he intends it to show that he has the capability to mount a good GOTV effort and has a pool of people he can count on for support.
But surely he can't point to that poll as a reason people should back him. It's just a tiny feather he can stick in his hat. Very tiny.
I think the first poll results were a far more likely reflection of support than say, the second poll, where hundreds of votes poured in suddenly in the last hours, more than had been cast in 4 days time!
You have a right to your opinion, of course. But I think the polls serve a purpose as long as the people who view the results do so knowing what they represent.
And.... I will take this opportunity to again remind you that you at one point indicated you'd be interested in being a guest poster.
You seem to have strong feelings about these polls, so perhaps that would be a good subject for your first one.
But I have yet to hear from you via e-mail. Please get in touch and I can set up a day for you, or simply send in your finished post and I'll put it up for you.
If you write with an email address I don't know, please indicate your Blogger name somewhere in the message so I know who you are.
Maybe... I did pull down the polls as soon as they were over. I just noticed last night that for some reason they still appear in some archive pages. I'm not sure why or how that is, but I'll see if I can find a way to get rid of them. But I can't "edit" the archive pages, so I'll have to see if I can do it at all.
I still maintain that though the 71st district poll may have been jiggered, it was not as blatantly nor as extreme, thus I think it deserves to stand.
I've certainly got nothing against McNeil, but I don't know how I could be accused of favoring him.
I intend to continue doing polls as I see fit as I don't share your view that they're somehow harmful and I think they're interesting at least.
I confess that I haven't spent a lot of time looking around for different poll providers, but I'm not too optimistic that it's capable to have a fool-proof one. And if it is, I believe you'd have to have access to and knowledge of much more technological capability than I have.
People, consider the source of this Boland rumor..
HeadUsher his own self. And you all know that only a miniscule amount of what he says can be taken seriously.
And Lord knows he doesn't take this blog seriously or he wouldn't dump such tripe here. He just likes to fool around here and try to mess with people.
Chuck Scholz for U.S. Representative 17th District
YoungDem... I feel your pain, but the fact remains that there are many people out there who would like to run for office.
The fact is that these people have also busted their asses in support of Lane for decades now. They have nothing against Lane. Far from it, they have nothing but the highest regard for him, as far as can be known.
But politics is politics and there has to be a certain cold practicality considered.
The fact remains that many feel, and justifiably so, in my opinion, that perhaps Evans has already had his last hurrah, and that for him to continue to run not only stirs up bad feelings among those who would like someone else to run, and perhaps even worse, could tarnish Lane's reputation by creating the appearance that he's clinging to the office in an unbecoming way and is not concerned whether his staying on will end up dragging Dems down and even opening up the distinct possibiltity of losing his seat to a Republican.
It's not that there's anti-Evans sentiment out there, per se, just people who sincerly think the best move for Lane would be to carefully plan his retirement and make sure that there's a capable and strong Dem candidate to take his place.... and soon.
There you go again Maybe... ha!
Here's the deal. I'm not taking any poll results down.
When I mentioned that I couldn't take the polls down on some pages I was referring to the fact that if you go back and view archived pages, the show prior polls. I don't know how to take them off of the archived pages. I believe it would take a lot of time and effort if it were possible, and I'm not going to bother.
Secondly, thanks for reminding me that the Evans poll results weren't up. The reason for that was that the web page template I'd used wouldn't allow one long column and began to squeeze everything into multiple columns when I tried to add the Evans' results.
I've been meaning to take a few hours and find and create a new template which I could add all of the results in one column.
I've now done that as you can see by following the poll results link.
The results will remain available on that page. The note regarding the 72nd district poll explains why those results were omitted.
This is the last I'll have to say on this issue.
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