Obama Favored in Xbox Live Poll
Obama Favored in Xbox Live Poll
September 23, 2008
A press release touting Xbox Live's partnership with Rock the Vote notes that Barack Obama has a 12% edge over John McCain among participants in an XBL poll. 100,000 users took part, which, according to the press release, makes the XBL sample larger than Gallup, NBC and CNN combined. Of course, as Giant Bomb notes:
...they aren't pretending that it's actual science, because there are so many holes in this poll that it's impossible to take it as anything other than sort-of interesting. For example, as someone who has more than one Xbox Live gold account, I probably could have voted twice...
Still, it is a fascinating use of what started out a few years back as a space designed strictly for online gaming.
As far as the results, Obama's big lead is not especially surprising, given that XBL users likely skew significantly younger than the population as a whole. Here are the numbers:
- Obama \ Biden: 43%
- McCain \ Palin: 31%
- Undecided: 13%
- Other: 13%
Of more value than the polling is the impressive level of political engagement engendered by the XBL / Rock the Vote partnership. As the press release points out:
In its first two weeks of the program, more than 55,000 voter registration forms were downloaded through Xbox LIVE and xbox.com. Additionally, videos from the recent Democratic and Republican conventions were downloaded nearly 25,000 times.
To-date, the Xbox LIVE community has downloaded more than 350,000 pieces of program-specific content, ranging from candidate gamerpics to videos and Rock the Vote logos. That’s nearly five times the amount of people present at Barack Obama’s acceptance speech during the Democratic Convention in Denver.
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Posted 11/07/09 at 10:58am
JDKJ: Which could be explained by both (a) and (b).
JDKJ: Which could be explained by both (a) and (b).
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:56am
Austin_Lewis: JDKJ: You forgot C) the fact that, for some reason, every time he did something that would suggest he shouldn't be in the military, let alone an officer, higher ups ignored it or let it slide.
Austin_Lewis: JDKJ: You forgot C) the fact that, for some reason, every time he did something that would suggest he shouldn't be in the military, let alone an officer, higher ups ignored it or let it slide.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:51am
JDKJ: Part of the problem is, I believe, that (a) the Army had a lot of time and money already invested in him and which they were unwilling to simply write-off and (b) an increasing need for the type of skills and services he provided.
JDKJ: Part of the problem is, I believe, that (a) the Army had a lot of time and money already invested in him and which they were unwilling to simply write-off and (b) an increasing need for the type of skills and services he provided.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:48am
JDKJ: And that even if he was begging not to get cut loose, he was apparently a real good candidate for being cut loose, anyway.
JDKJ: And that even if he was begging not to get cut loose, he was apparently a real good candidate for being cut loose, anyway.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:11am
JDKJ: @chada: And while Kennedy once noted that there's usually more than enough blame for everyone to get a slice, the possibility that the Army was unwilling to cut loose someone who was asking to get cut loose could be a factor.
JDKJ: @chada: And while Kennedy once noted that there's usually more than enough blame for everyone to get a slice, the possibility that the Army was unwilling to cut loose someone who was asking to get cut loose could be a factor.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:07am
ZippyDSMlee: *noms on his feet*..nomnomnomnom*droooll* ...wuuutttttt uuu looking at?
ZippyDSMlee: *noms on his feet*..nomnomnomnom*droooll* ...wuuutttttt uuu looking at?
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:05am
JDKJ: I'm no psychologist, but I'm told that crazy people have a tendency to do crazy things.
JDKJ: I'm no psychologist, but I'm told that crazy people have a tendency to do crazy things.
Posted 11/07/09 at 10:03am
chadachada321: Whoops, was out of the convo for awhile. I do wonder what type of ammo he used etc, but the real issue is WHY he did it, not HOW
chadachada321: Whoops, was out of the convo for awhile. I do wonder what type of ammo he used etc, but the real issue is WHY he did it, not HOW
Posted 11/07/09 at 09:56am
JDKJ: But if it turns out that they actually did, they'll have Hell to pay.
JDKJ: But if it turns out that they actually did, they'll have Hell to pay.
Posted 11/07/09 at 09:45am
JDKJ: And I'd tend to rule out the possibilty of FN Herstal supplying restricted ammunition to someone merely because they're ordering it from a military base.
JDKJ: And I'd tend to rule out the possibilty of FN Herstal supplying restricted ammunition to someone merely because they're ordering it from a military base.
Posted 11/07/09 at 09:37am
JDKJ: I know you don't leave your gated community and get around much in dark alleys, so you may be surprised to learn that there's this thing called "the black market" where, if you've got enough money, ain't too much of anything which can't be bought.
JDKJ: I know you don't leave your gated community and get around much in dark alleys, so you may be surprised to learn that there's this thing called "the black market" where, if you've got enough money, ain't too much of anything which can't be bought.
Posted 11/07/09 at 09:36am
Austin_Lewis: Or, maybe he or someone else at the base ordered the SS190 from FN Herstal.
Austin_Lewis: Or, maybe he or someone else at the base ordered the SS190 from FN Herstal.
Posted 11/07/09 at 09:32am
Austin_Lewis: the hands of private owners. They run about 300 dollars minimum for a box of 50, and boxes of AP 5.7 are extremely scarce, mainly residing in the hands of Class III stores or individuals who for one reason or another got a demo box of it.
Austin_Lewis: the hands of private owners. They run about 300 dollars minimum for a box of 50, and boxes of AP 5.7 are extremely scarce, mainly residing in the hands of Class III stores or individuals who for one reason or another got a demo box of it.
Posted 11/07/09 at 09:30am
Austin_Lewis: There are other firearms that fire the 5.7. However, I too would like to know where he got the ammo and what kind was used. Maybe Hasan, planning not to live through this, went out and bought one the boxes of SS190 that are floating around in
Austin_Lewis: There are other firearms that fire the 5.7. However, I too would like to know where he got the ammo and what kind was used. Maybe Hasan, planning not to live through this, went out and bought one the boxes of SS190 that are floating around in
Posted 11/07/09 at 08:44am
JDKJ: And it isn't yet clear what type of ammunition Hasan used. It's strange that he purchased a gun but didn't purchase ammunition for it at the same place and time. Especially because the calibre required is peculiar to the actual gun.
JDKJ: And it isn't yet clear what type of ammunition Hasan used. It's strange that he purchased a gun but didn't purchase ammunition for it at the same place and time. Especially because the calibre required is peculiar to the actual gun.
Posted 11/07/09 at 08:40am
JDKJ: We can sit here all day and debate the relative merits. However, I think the events of recent days suggest that an FN Five-Seven ain't exactly the same as that Daisy BB gun you got for Christmas when you were a kid.
JDKJ: We can sit here all day and debate the relative merits. However, I think the events of recent days suggest that an FN Five-Seven ain't exactly the same as that Daisy BB gun you got for Christmas when you were a kid.
Posted 11/07/09 at 08:38am
Austin_Lewis: JDKJ: tumbling can be quite dangerous. However, the rounds that commonly tumbled were variants of the SS90. Civilian ammo tends to tumble far less commonly.
Austin_Lewis: JDKJ: tumbling can be quite dangerous. However, the rounds that commonly tumbled were variants of the SS90. Civilian ammo tends to tumble far less commonly.
Posted 11/07/09 at 08:33am
JDKJ: I understand that while they don't have much expansion effect, they tend to "yaw" on impact. Yaw can be almost just as damaging as mushrooming.
JDKJ: I understand that while they don't have much expansion effect, they tend to "yaw" on impact. Yaw can be almost just as damaging as mushrooming.
Posted 11/07/09 at 08:30am
Austin_Lewis: JDKJ: Except when one considers the lack of expansion for the 5.7, it basically ends up leaving a far smaller hole.
Austin_Lewis: JDKJ: Except when one considers the lack of expansion for the 5.7, it basically ends up leaving a far smaller hole.
Posted 11/07/09 at 08:29am
JDKJ: But if the latter's travelling at close to twice the speed of the former, there's a compensatory effect on the weight difference.
JDKJ: But if the latter's travelling at close to twice the speed of the former, there's a compensatory effect on the weight difference.
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Aside from the multiple account issue, I think a bigger issue is that only 2 candidates were named out of all possible (registered?) contenders. Seriously, is it only 2 guys?
Depends on the state. Many states have candidates from the Constitution Party, the Libertarian Party and/or the Green Party. If you live in Oklahoma, you are screwed though as we don't allow third parties on our ballot.
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That's a big problem I think in America. In Michigan, if I vote for McCain, I have to vote for Palin also. I just see too many problems with today's system.
Of course, because Palin is his running mate O.o
Um it's like that everywhere. Palin is the running mate for McCain she's on the ballot with him one way or another Oo you don't vote on the Vice-President on a canditite gets.
If I want to vote for McCain, but not for Palin, I should be able to. That's what I was getting at. There should be a "President" box and a "Vice Pres" box, each with it's own candidates. I don't wanna be commited to a vp just because of the President I vote for.
Please read any 11th grade history textbook before you make comments like this. It's like that for a reason. It used to be like that, but vice presidents that hated the presidents guts were elected, and one kept undoing the work of and sabotoging the other. People like to bitch about the system, but most of the practices we have are their because the alternatives were tried, and they didn't work.
Yeah now Congress has taken over the role of battling the President's wishes.
Going back to his 11th grade history textbook, that's congress's job.
Wow, for the first time I agree with a position of the Oklahoma government. Third parties break our stupid pick-one voting system. Either they should be removed from the ballot, or the system should be revamped to accommodate them, but just leaving it alone and pretending that the current system reflects the will of the people is silly.
You can not vote on the internet, people! Imagine the hell that would be!
Yeah, people already cheat the poll system, think about the internet poll system with how retared our government is. They cant even get the electronic voting to work out well. Come ON!!! I can make a flash program to do all of the voting, why? because it is easy as hell. Tell it to print, and send info to database. Then the database be uploaded to a thumb drive password protected, and fully 512 encrypted (overkill, but hell), then have them bring that to a main office where they plug it into the computer there to sent the numbers to the main collection center, wherever the hell that is, as well as call the place. All uneditable to anyone other than the initial voter when voting. Have that hub before the main collection place print off everything with 3pt font with a super high quality printer, then the final place print off everything with 1pt font with a even better quality printer.
Full paper trail, full electronic trail, and have the initial machines everyone voted on save all of the votes for 6 months or until deleted by an official, which can only happen 4 months after voting.
Sadly, all of that would only take a week to program the main parts of it at most, and the encrytpion part would take the longest if you made it very secure, and make it so there are reader programs, but not editing programs....
It is all possible... Online is unfair to certain groups of people though, if you had both, someone would do dirty tricks to screw it up...
Okay, I am on a sugar high right now...
So is this one of the gamerpics?
http://profile.ak.facebook.com/object/1329/75/n2235978811_31808.jpg
I'm mildly disturbed that an XBL-only poll turned out 31% of its votes for McCain...
I agree, much too low, I can't believe so many XBL gamers want socialism in the US
Well, if I want a third grader's grasp of the issues, now I know who to contact. Thanks.
ZOMG!! Populism!!
ZOMG!! Populism!!
shit, double post. My b.
Pssst! I heard that he's a muslim as well as a filthy communist, quick, chain mail everyone you know!
Pssst! Shut up. He isn't and nobody but the kooks are saying he is.
That was satire.
Socialist is right! I heard that Obama is pushing for the government to spend $700bn on bailing out the banks! Oh wait, that's the current republican president. You dumbass.
You were thinking of Obama's push to spend $845bn on his pet project, the Global Poverty Act. Now who's the dumbass?
I was for obama but got tired of his rhetoric really fast.
Didn't take that poll, but did another one. Have to say - I'm in the 'other' camp
I am in the other camp as well...
Dennis, when you get back, can we have a poll were we can vote to see what the GP users stand politically? I know how it will turn out, but I still want to see solid numbers. Limit it where each IP address gets 1 vote maybe. I don't know how many of you guys share a computer with someone...
I think Obama, McCain, Other, Undecided is fair enough.
Later we can vote on how crazy we think JT is,haha.
Should add Bob Barr...
and Ron Paul as a write-in (which my father is actually doing)
Add JT as a joke, haha.
can't be worse than Palin.
And hey if JT wins and still doesn't win court cases he can't claim a grand conspiracy anymore.
What's the point? He's not going to win, so for practical purposes, undecided is close enough.
I'm an Obama supporter, myself, but online polls aren't reliable. According to the Internet, the most beautiful person in the world is Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf.
He is pretty hot, haha
Well... maybe they are not that great, but it can be a little fun.
You mean was, heh.
Yeah, ron paul won a lot of the internet polls, and we all know the massive impact his campaign had....
Wasn't the only thing Ron Paul accomplished was second place in Maine and Nevada? Correct me if I'm wrong.
Pity though I was curios to see who he would've picked as VP
Ron Paul/Jillette '08. Doesn't have much of a ring to it but it would still get the job done.
Second place in the primaries for one party in two of the least populated, lowest voter turnout states in the country!
A revolution is truly in the air.
I haven't been following Ron Paul news so he may have gotten more. But if you want to talk about unpopulated states check out Palin's home state.
Now why couldn't Obama pick someone from Alaska?
Obama/Gravel anyone?
I'd vote Obama only because he's the lesser of two evils and the race is so close.
Of course i'm Canadian so i can't vote in the U.S. election but we have an upcoming Canadian election up here and i'm voting for the Liberals for the same reason (lesser of two evils compared to the Conservatives) even if i don't really care for them. A Conservative majority government would be scary so i'm hoping it's just a Conservative minority again as the Conservatives are going to win for sure it's just a toss up between a Minority or Majority government for them. With a minority government the Conservatives have to pander to the center which keeps things in check. None of the political parties up here fit my beliefs which if i had to fit myself somewhere would be moderate populist libertarian.
I'm not sure what I would call myself, but I consider McCain to be the lesser evil. Honestly, Ron Paul is a great candidate, and should've won the Republican primary. Then the race would've been a shue-in (sp?)
Ron Paul lost because he's insanely out of touch, not to mention a conspiracy nut (NAFTA superhighway! It's coming!). I'll never understand why there are so many Liberarinas on the internet. I guess people that are well intentioned but don't know much about politics what to think that there different and aren't ''sheep.''
I don't know if I should mention that Paul's rejected 9/11 conspiracy claims, although what does the super highway matter. If there wasn't a super highway and he got elected, the government would just tell him that no highway was actually planned and we'd get on with our lives.
Oh and what are "Liberarinas"? I'm going to assume you mean librarians. Anyway the surgence of librarians can probably be blamed on wikipedia where all of a sudden gathering information was cool. There's nothing wrong with librarians though.
Edit: Sorry for criticizing your spelling I just have a habit of taking almost every oppotunity I can to make a joke.
Maybe the point is that someone running for president takes seriously a theory that you can debunk in thirty seconds with a internet connection and a visit to snopes? I mean, do you want a president that is that that ll-informed?
Well then there's Mccain who doesn't know how to work the internet.
Oh and I searched highway on snopes and it came up with 153 entries and I didn't see the super highway you are reffering to.
If you think McCain's the lesser of two evils you should pay more attention.
1. McCain wasn't the #2 recipiant of money from Freddie Mac.
2. McCain didn't launch his political career from the living room of an unrepentent terrorist.
3. McCain didn't live next-door to a slum lord that ended up being convicted for fraud and bribery.
4. McCain didn't visit Pakistan while in college during a time when the US state department had travel restrictions in place expressly forbidding it.
5. McCain didn't work for a notoriously group supporting socialist values, claiming "his years as an organizer gave him the best education of his life".
6. McCain doesn't have a brother living on a dollar a month while proposing an $850bn plan to "help eliminate world poverty".
7. McCain doesn't put up straw men by saying things like "They'll say I don't look like the other presidents on the dollar bills", when in fact nobody says things like that expressly because it's such a silly and easily defeatable argument.
7 is a lucky number, but I can keep going if you'd like.
Wait why does #3 matter? Why should we judge someone on what their neighbors are up to?
Ron Paul has some great ideas like Free Speech absolutism (no law means no law), getting rid of the war on drugs, no coorperate bailouts, get out of the war in Iraq, lesser government intervention in our social lives and nanny-statist protectionist bullshit, right to bare arms, ect. but some of his fiscal/economic views are way too extreme for me.
Face it, Ron Paul wants us to be just like the European Union. That is, loosely connected states with no formal power over each other and a passive-defensive military presence in the world.
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If someone gets out and votes because Xbox Live told them to do so, then I don't think that person's vote should be considered valid. They can have the cookie and a certificate that says, "Thanks for participating!"
That's cool. I guess that people who own Xbox's are more likely to be better off economically, thus more likely to be better informed, thus more likely to be politicaly liberal. I don't think it's a true rep. of XBL's player base, because it's only the poeple who cared enough to vote.
It really doesn't matter which gets elected as they are both funded by the same interest groups (ie: corporations). Here's an interesting perspective on their 'differences': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5WiE6MnmCM
I know they differ in other areas, sure, but that's just to make the whole thing look 'believable'. The Commission on Presidential Debates is a private organization, just like the FED and the IRS (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_on_Presidential_Debates). The idea that we actually have a choice regarding how our country is run is really just a common misconception. The only way to break this endless cycle of Democrat-Republican-Republican-Democrat rhetoric is to throw a curve ball. Vote for Ralph Nader. Send a clear message to the corrupt system that we're not going to be fooled any longer.
At the VERY LEAST, they should let Ralph in the debates. The fact that they won't is proof they don't want anyone 'mucking around' with their perfectly rigged system.
Watch that video and then tell me they aren't being fed their 'answers' to how the issues should be handled.
You know, it must be nice to be able to write off all of the worlds problems to a gigantic conspiracy instead of human nature and incompetence.
I don't know why the spam filter won't let me make my short post, but basically imagine a joke about how you mockingly refer to a 'gigantic conspiracy' from behind your ANONYMOUS post, and how the patriot act is proof that our best interests are NOT being kept in mind.
mockingly refer to a 'gigantic conspiracy' from behind your ANONYMOUS post
Damn, you found me out. Freemason strike teams are already headed towards your house right now. Run out into the night and continue the proud naderite tradition of good intentions and disasterous consequences.
Well,I guess I should be surprised.But the McCain/Palin power ticket has dashed my surprises at this point.
To be honest,I wish we could do over the Republican primaries.
Oh,and I think Obama is an empty suit with a pretty face.But hey,McCain is a really old guy who probably didn't even have a say in his choice for his own Veep!
Good Lord,this is just stupid.
It is mostly young people on Xbox Live, who the hell do you think they would pick?
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Obama's speeches are amazing. He is good speaker. To have such good speech writing skills you should be a perfect speech writer.