Andrew Rice Supporters Sabotage Jim Inhofe’s Online Poll
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Monday evening, U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe’s 2008 Senate campaign posted a poll on its website, Pulse Poll: High Gasoline Prices. The poll invited campaign supporters to give their opinion regarding whether or not they agreed with the following statement:
Democrat leadership in the U.S. Senate is obstructing short term solutions to rising gas prices.
Early yesterday morning, Andrew Rice (and Obama) supporter, VoteHope08, posted a “diary” (a blog post) on the DailyKOS (a far-left California based website with nearly a million daily visitors), entitled, “OK-SEN: HELP SCREW WITH INHOFE’S ONLINE POLL.” (Note: This is the direct link, but I’ve saved a screen print, here, because the KOS is famous for deleting posts to cover its tracks when these things get out in the open.)
According to the KOS diarist, the poll results showed 96% of respondents agreed with the above statement, shortly after 8:30 yesterday morning, Oklahoma time. Since then (no time available), the Inhofe campaign has had to close it’s poll.
Andrew Rice has received a lot of support from the DailyKOS, and maintains a diary there.
Is this how Rice plans to win his campaign? By shutting down and shutting up anyone who opposes his liberal views?
Also see: Senator Inhofe Facing Competition for U.S. Senate Seat
"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you." 
“the KOS is famous for deleting posts to cover its tracks when these things get out in the open.”
Thanks for posting this. Screwing with an online poll? What a waste of time. This highlights how immature people are willing to act out of sheer partisan one-up-man-ship. The same could be said of recent conservative (and incompetent) telephone stunts.
But I don’t believe Rice has the capability or savvy to be “shutting down and shutting up anyone who opposes” him. He doesn’t yet have that kind of pull. Plus, messing with a web survey isn’t really shutting anyone down. Its just child’s play, like flaming a discussion thread.
Even if Rice wanted to coordinate such a thing, he doesn’t have to. There are plenty of Democratic party loyalists who are willing to play these political web games on their own. Too bad their loyalty gives Rice’s campaign a black eye.
Very good points, David S., thanks.
Still, one would expect Andrew Rice to discourage this type of behavior among his supporters.
Does Rice have a sexual orientation choice. Gosh I know it is old hat to womder but it matters to me and most of America…morals I mean.
Hi, FG Onions!
From what I understand, OK Senator Rice is married, with children. This is from his website:
FG-how does your mind jump from spam to wieners that fast?!
I voted in Inhofe’s poll (not because I saw the Kos piece) and it only let me vote once. I tried to vote twice, but it wouldn’t go through. So … if it’s a public poll on a public Web site that asks a question … even if some nutty liberal says “screw with it”, all that’s really happening is people are being asked to vote. I mean, maybe some Republicans who read Kos just because they hate it saw the link and voted “Yes.”
I think it’s a stretch to say Rice should condemn his supporters for posting a link to something his opponent was doing. What, were Republicans the only ones who were supposed to be voting?
MO wrote:
Now, that’s a bit of “a stretch.”
[...] Price Reduction Survey June 19, 2008 — Jenn Earlier this week, I wrote about how Andrew Rice Supporters Sabotage Jim Inhofe’s Online Poll. U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe now has a follow-up survey to that poll. Following is an e-mail he sent to [...]
The fact of the matter is that there are no short term solutions to obstruct. I think we know that republicans have a long history of siding with big oil. The war in Iraq was not about oil but yet prices went up. The price of oil has doubled since Bush stole the office. People can see this. Inhofe needs to look for a job or retire. He has taken the wrong side for far too long.
Sorry, but it’s Republican “leadership” that’s obstructing short term solutions to rising gas prices. Check out the facts yourself (if you’re interested in the facts, that is):
Gas could fall to $2 if Congress acts, analysts say
Limiting speculation would push prices to fundamental level, lawmakers told
By Rex Nutting & Michael Kitchen, MarketWatch
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The price of retail gasoline could fall by half, to around $2 a gallon, within 30 days of passage of a law to limit speculation in energy-futures markets, four energy analysts told Congress on Monday.
Testifying to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Michael Masters of Masters Capital Management said that the price of oil would quickly drop closer to its marginal cost of around $65 to $75 a barrel, about half the current $135.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/gas-could-fall-2-if/story.aspx?guid={2673C102-68E0-41D9-9C9A-10EE2E723948}&print=true&dist=printMidSection
W.Va. congressman pushing oil companies to start drilling unused land
by Jake Stump
Daily Mail Capitol Reporter
Congressman Nick Rahall is telling big oil companies to “use it or lose it.”
Rahall, D-W.Va., introduced legislation last week that gives those companies an ultimatum: Start producing oil on their 68 million acres of inactive land or risk federal restrictions on future lease requests.
A report by the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources, which Rahall chairs, states that oil and gas companies hold leases to 68 million acres of federal land and waters, spread out all across the country, that are not producing anything. An additional 4.8 million barrels of oil could be produced daily if the land was utilized, the report says.
Of the 47.5 million on-shore acres currently leased by the oil companies, only 13 million acres are being used.
They’re drilling even less on the 44 million offshore acres they have.
The oil companies have almost 10,000 drilling permits that they are not using.
There is no oil shortage!!
The oil companies are stockpiling reserves while still making world record profits!!
See the PDF by the House Resources Committee: “The Truth About America’s Energy: Big Oil Stockpiles Supplies and Pockets Profits”
http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=388&Itemid=70
Also, how can you in good conscience invoke Will Rogers on this site? Rogers was a lifelong Democrat. (His famous quote is, of course, “I don’t belong to any organized party. I’m a Democrat.”) Rogers was a vocal supporter of Franklin D. Roosevelt, whom I’m sure Sen. Inhofe and proprietors of this site despise for having saved capitalism from itself.
Ok, Dawn, you’re entitled to your opinion about which political party is the most responsible for the current gas prices, (Many might argue that the Democrats refusal over the last three decades to let us drill on so much of our own soil is also playing a large part in the problem!), but I’ll thank you kindly not to tell me who I can and cannot “invoke” on my blog.
Will Rogers is a hero of mine, and of many in Oklahoma, especially Green Country (since this is where he was born). He was a principled man, with a strong value system. Our conservative values here are still an important part of our lives, regardless of what the political parties are doing in Oklahoma City or Washington D.C., and those values are what help us make decisions at election time, and on current political issues.
Jenn:
I wasn’t giving you my OPINION on which party is most responsible for gas prices, I was giving you FACTS.
Which party supports closing the “Enron loophole” that allows speculators to inflate prices?
As the energy experts testified before Congress last week, gas could be $2 in 30 days if the Republicans would vote to limit speculation.
(Obama has said he would support closing the Enron loophole, btw.)
And as for “refusal to let us drill,” I just showed you that the oil companies are sitting on 10,000 permits that they aren’t using.
They could start drilling today, but they don’t want to; they want to artificially short supply to keep prices high. Demand is down slightly from the same period last year. Why would the oil giants want to glut the market and drive prices down?
The oil companies are feeding Americans that “shortage” crap so they can hoard more reserves.
BTW, since Bush became president, Exxon’s reserves have increased in value by $1,000,000,000,000. One trillion dollars.
And as for your exploiting the memory and legacy of Will Rogers on a conservative blog, just because Rogers was born in OK doesn’t mean he would be on board with any of the ideas you promote. As you say, he was a principled man, which is why, as I said, he was a lifelong Democrat. If Rogers is such a hero of yours, I think you should read up on the principles that he, as a vocal FDR Democrat, lived by, and try to learn from him.
It is also a “Fact” that the Dems have not let us drill sufficiently here in the U.S. to keep us from becoming dependent on foreign oil, thus creating a national security crisis. Which party gets the majority of the blame really is a matter of opinion…there is enough blame to go around.
And Will Rogers died in 1935. The Democratic Party at that time was NOTHING like the one today…run by special interests, including the Global Warming alrmists, who have hijacked a common-sense conservation movement to preserve our nation’s natural resources, and turned it into a godless religion that refers to anyone who questions its prophet (AlGore) and high priestess (Pelosi) as “doubters” and seeks to ostracize them from the colloective.
Yep, you’ve drunk the Republican Corporocrat Kool-Aid all right. (Haven’t they done such a great job? Under Reagan the USA went from the world’s largest creditor nation to the world’s largest debtor nation during his term. Clinton reversed that and left the nation with a huge surplus – a surplus that George W. Bush promptly turned into the largest debt that this country, or the world has ever seen. And it all went to Halliburton and Providian and Northrop Grumman and Pfizer and Blue Cross and especially EXXON, who has broken world profit records while sucking our economy dry. They have looted our national treasury, and you are aiding and abetting them. You need to read What’s the Matter with Kansas to try to understand how you’ve been bamboozled.)
I’m done here, better things to do. Good luck. And try to keep cool.
Yes, well, it’s a shame your man Clinton was too busy entertaining his interns and playing Robin Hood with his wife in the form of socialized health care to take out Osama when he had the chance. He could have saved at least 3,000 American lives that were lost only weeks (conveniently) after he left office. And most reasonable people would agree that the resulting war just might have had something to do with the economy during the Bush term.
Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Dawn.
Uhmmm wait, hate to bump an old thread… but did I just hear someone say that Clinton was responsible for not “taking out” Osama Bin Laden? Last time I checked Osama had been focused on anti-soviet actions through the 80’s and internal Afghanistan conflicts until 98 when he was linked to a lot of anti-US/Jewish propaganda and the 98 embassy bombings, at which point Clinton froze all his assets and authorized his arrest or assassination. So Clinton, for two years, failed to do what Bush has failed to do for 8 and you throw the main responsibility on the guy that had one quarter of the time to do it as the other guy? (not to mention that the other guy didn’t have things like Afghanistan’s sovereign territory to worry about…)
As for my opinion on the main topic of this thread… Get over it people. If the Inhoffe campaign wants a survey of only it’s supporters they should send the poll only to their supporters, not the whole world via the world wide web. It’s like the people that have sex in public places complaining when someone publishes pictures of them. When you expose yourself to the world, expect the world to notice.