Poll results

I found it really interesting how this voting came out. The Hype poll had 13 responses with 6 voting that the Dean Campaign changed elections forever and 7 voting that it did not. So on the Hype poll, the Hype side won. The Type poll had 11 total votes, with 8 voting that the Dean Campaign changed elections forever and only 4 voting that it did not. So the Type side won on the Type poll.

This is exactly what we thought would happen-- that people's perspective would be tainted by which site with which they first became affiliated.

The more interesting question for me is why the Type group got many more votes in the in-class poll than in the online poll. Adding the two site votes together it is 14 to 11 that the Campaign changed elections forever. I don't have exact numbers, but it was an even more unbalanced vote for the Type group during class. It may be a function of online sample size online - i.e., that some people just didn't vote online - or the in-class persuasion.