AFA Gay Marraige Poll
Everybody’s talking about the American Family Association’s Gay Marriage poll, and how they had planned to present the results to the American Congress. As Lesley at Plum Crazy wisely points out, this is hardly a scientific survey–it’s a freakin’ Web poll. You’d have to be a fool to lend it any credence.
Regardless, they undoubtedly hoped to get their site visitors–presumably conservative, anti-gay marriage types–to visit the poll, vote accordingly and then have a tasty stat-filled sound byte for a future press release. A good, but overly transparent tactic. As you can see, the current results are no doubt a closer reflection of America’s views than they had hoped for. Another fine example of a company screwing themselves by underestimating the power of Internet-based communication.
By the way, while looking at the AFA’s site, I noticed their front page banner. Does that pink text look a little Rainbow Nation to anybody else? I couldn’t resist a little Photoshopping to make it a bit more gay-porn-sitish:
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