Thursday, December 23, 2004
Poll Closed; Kerry Sticker Stays
by Tom Bozzo
Stick it to Ken Mehlman: 6
Don't fight the power: 2.
The sticker stays, at least through the winter.
Suzanne, whose vote would have been disproportionately influential had I somehow seen a gaggle of conservative readers voting for removal, says she voted to keep it. I also had an extra-blog conversation with some friends who reported being cheered by seeing other cars with Kerry stickers driving around. (One of them did remove a "B U _ _ S H _ _" sticker from one of their cars shortly after the election.)
These went a long way to changing the decisive vote, not counted in the above totals, from leaning towards removal to a stay of execution.
My guesstimate is that this blog has 10-15 more-or-less regular readers, so the response rate on the poll was not too bad, assuming transient visitors mostly ignored it. (I don't actually know who voted or how.)
The final tally from the poll on the fate of my Kerry bumper sticker is as follows:
Stick it to Ken Mehlman: 6
Don't fight the power: 2.
The sticker stays, at least through the winter.
Suzanne, whose vote would have been disproportionately influential had I somehow seen a gaggle of conservative readers voting for removal, says she voted to keep it. I also had an extra-blog conversation with some friends who reported being cheered by seeing other cars with Kerry stickers driving around. (One of them did remove a "B U _ _ S H _ _" sticker from one of their cars shortly after the election.)
These went a long way to changing the decisive vote, not counted in the above totals, from leaning towards removal to a stay of execution.
My guesstimate is that this blog has 10-15 more-or-less regular readers, so the response rate on the poll was not too bad, assuming transient visitors mostly ignored it. (I don't actually know who voted or how.)
