Usually online polls are harmless bits of political trivia. Helpful to guage the interests of a large, participatory community like dailykos or myDD, but harmful when taken for more than trivia.
Today, News Channel 6 (WSDU) in New Orleans, in a cheap publicity stunt, has placed such a great and unfair weight on an online poll that freeping it is currently leading towards the silencing of the only Democratic voice in a Democratic City Council District in New Orleans.
They're dictating who they show on a candidate debate based on who wins their stupid online poll ... regardless of who has the most support.
Please, take just ten seconds to click on a link and fight back with your online vote.
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