February 26, 2006

Huff tops Grchan in blog poll

A recent poll asking Inside Dope readers who they preferred in the upcoming Rock Island County Sheriff primary has just closed after running a week, and the results are in.

Huff over Grchan, 29 to 21 votes.

Fully half of the total votes had to be discarded due to naughty people voting more than once (I TOLD you they'd be removed... you didn't believe me?)

These including one industrious individual who voted 11 times for Huff, and another voting enthusiast who not only voted 11 times for Huff, but voted twice for Grchan for good measure. Hedging his bets, I suppose.

There were a total of 100 votes cast, 50 of which were invalid duplicate votes.

The raw totals were Grchan, 43 votes, Huff, 57

After eliminating all duplicates, the 50 remaining vaild votes came to:

Huff - 29 votes or 58%

Grchan - 21 votes or 42%


As a commenter noted, judging by the last two poll results, it seems that Inside Dope readers have a preference for challengers. Whether that reflects the real world remains to be seen.


12 Comments:

At 2/26/2006 8:27 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

DOPE POLL: 0-2

 
At 2/26/2006 5:50 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I guess we found out who the best man is in a cyber election.

Though, I predict the real vote percentage to be: Huff 62% / Grchan 38%

 
At 2/26/2006 5:51 PM, Blogger The Inside Dope said...

emdemo,

You should talk to the Jacobs crowd about how valid online polls are. Should be an interesting discussion.

 
At 2/26/2006 5:53 PM, Blogger The Inside Dope said...

Anon 8:27

As usual, you're speaking too soon.

And will someone please organize an intervention to go over and turn this person's caps lock key off?

 
At 2/26/2006 9:33 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think the two polls that you have run are wonderful. I feel that you should run a poll for Governor of the state of Illinois. That would be very interesting.

 
At 2/27/2006 8:40 AM, Blogger The Inside Dope said...

You think it's real tight between Eisendrath and Blagojevich?

Ha!

Or do you mean a poll on the Republican primary?

 
At 2/27/2006 4:45 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

The General is to far away. I don't think it is tight but not all races are. I think it sets as a good barometer.

 
At 2/27/2006 5:31 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's time for predictions.

Huff 51
Grchan 49

Blagojevich 58
Eisendrath 42

Jacobs 57
Rumler 43

Topinka 35
Oberweiss 30
Gidwitz 20
Brady 15

 
At 2/27/2006 10:01 PM, Blogger The Inside Dope said...

Anon above...

You're the man!

Now you're talking.

Could I use your predictions to start a thread on the subject?

Thanks.

 
At 2/28/2006 11:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

you ask about the gov race being to one sided. your bloggers think it is as close as they see the Jacobs Rumler race.

 
At 2/28/2006 11:06 AM, Blogger The Inside Dope said...

Anon above.

I'm sorry, but I'm not able to figure out what you're saying (or asking?).

Care to try again?

 
At 2/28/2006 1:58 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Eisendrath vs Blagojavich?
Dah!

 

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