more on Poll on soon to be ex-Chairman Powell

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Mark Harrison <mh () pixar com>
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 22:30:09 -0800
To: <dave () farber net>
Cc: <ritholtz () optonline net>
Subject: Re: [IP] WSJ Poll on soon to be ex-Chairman Powell

David Farber wrote:
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> *From: *Barry Ritholtz <ritholtz () optonline net>
> *Date: *Sat, 22 Jan 2005 11:10:02 -0500
> *To: *<dave () farber net>
> *Subject: *WSJ Poll on soon to be ex-Chairman Powell

> WSJ subscribers can see the results here:
http://discussions.wsj.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=wsjvoices&tid=3404&vote=5&sub
mit=Vote 
>
<http://discussions.wsj.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=wsjvoices&tid=3404&vote=5&su
bmit=Vote> 

> While these polls are notoriously unscientific, I was surprised to see
> over half (57%) of the voting WSJ readerswere apparently none to
> impressed with the Chairman.

This is not surprising, since following the first link registers
a vote of "F".

The WSJ should have a better voting system, where simply following
a link does not register a vote.  I'm surprised Mr Ritholz does
not realize this, since the page displayed a message like
"Your vote was F on 1/23/2005 1:22 am".

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