So, I’m doing my part as a loyal little card-carrying (yes! I got a card in the mail today!) DNC foot soldier to go out and there and valiantly freep* the online polls to the benefit of My Candidate. I did it for all three debates, despite not being able to watch a one of them (for a variety of reasons—I have all of them on TiVo though!).

And guess what? Sayonara, online polls: Of the 20 or so sites I’ve clicked on, only one asked who won tonight’s debate. Instead i found instant polls asking me if the debates changed my mind, or if I think domestic affairs or foreign affairs will play more heavily in this election.

I think the answer to who won was a foregone conclusion.

(*Freep comes from “Free Republic,” a truly abhorrent online society of ‘wingers who make the John Birch Society look like the Young Campus Communists. They are notorious for voicing such delightful sentiments as that anyone who doesn’t goosestep with them should be shot as a traitor. They also are fond of voting in online polls en masse—that damn Frenchy talk again—because Wolf Blitzer or whoever would always announce the results of the completely meaningless online poll as though it were handed down from the Mount. So now online polls get “freeped” by both sides. Although Kerry won by gigantic margins in the previous online polls, so maybe there aren’t enough Freepers out there…)