Cain and Paul "removed" from Bill O'Reilly poll???, page 2

Originally posted by Sanndy

Originally posted by GeorgiaGirl

Originally posted by Sanndy

Originally posted by GeorgiaGirl
I am watching the Bill O'Reilly show on Fox. He just said something like this:

NOTE: I was watching this live on TV, so I am paraphrasing what he said...this is not an exact quote, even though I put quotation marks around it.
"I have bad news to report. On our poll, the Herman Cain and Ron Paul supporters were told to flood the site and vote for their candidates, so we have to throw those 2 candidates out. The winner was Mitt Romney with Newt Gingrich in 2nd and Rick Perry in 3rd."

Now, that is crap, I get emails from Herman Cain, and they did no such thing. I actually DID go on the site and vote for Cain, but I did it on my own. No one told me to "flood the site".

Sounds like Cain and Paul won and O'Reilly is ticked.

I would link something, but the poll is still showing as open on the website and there is no news story about it yet.

Well there was a thread on here a few days ago with a Paul supporter asking people to do just that. The thread was 404'd pretty quickly here but how many forums did not moderate such requests? The funniest part is the OP of that thread pointed out things like what BillO had said and then asked people to vote for Paul to "prove them wrong."

I really really really hate to be on O'Reilly's side but hell it was right here.

Respectfully, I still don't agree.

What about Cain supporters? Have you seen anything like that from his camp? As I said, I am on his email list, and he didn't send anything like that out. I'm also in several of the pro-Cain Facebook groups, and I didn't see anything like that on Facebook either.

So maybe Ron Paul supporters pushed for it, but I'd like some evidence Cain's did.

Even IF they did, however, isn't the goal to see who can stir up their people enough to rally them to vote? If they did that next November, we'd call it winning the election...isn't it the goal of the candidate to see who can rally their supporters???

Also, what was stopping the other candidates from having supporters who did the same thing???

I specifically pointed out what I saw about Ron Paul because that was something I actually saw. I never said any such thing about Cain because I had not seen any such thing about Cain. Must not exist then, right?
As for what is stopping other candidates from having supporters do the same thing? Well their supporters probably have jobs and lives. Ron Paul supporters have always been more on the young end of the spectrum. Just the right crowd to be online already updating their facebook status.

Next time you aske me to prove something about Cain you might want to check and see if I said anything about him that needed proving.

You said you agree with O'Reilly. O'Reilly threw out Paul AND Cain from the poll. I took your agreement with O'Reilly as you agreeing with him throwing out both Cain and Paul. That is what I disagreed with you about.

If you had said that you agree with him throwing out Paul, but you didn't know about Cain, then I would have responded differently.

So again, I respectfully disagree with you if you are in favor of him throwing out both Cain and Paul.

Apparently, though, you were just talking about Paul.

Therefore, my response to you is this:
Respectfully, I still disagree. Any candidate could inspire his or her supporters to "flood" the online poll. The fact that only Ron Paul has been demonstrated to have done that speaks to the fervor of his supporters. I suggest that the other candidates should inspire their supporters to that level as well. But I think they can't because I believe that the other candidates are just not inspiring. Probably one of them will win, because they are boring and safe. But that doesn't mean Ron Paul (or Herman Cain) didn't win that online poll.