Poll #12 17th District candidate preference poll

Question: "Who would you like to see chosen as Lane Evans' replacement as the Democratic congressional candidate?"

Poll ran 4-5 thru 4-11-2006

Here are the results in order, listed by Name - Actual vote with duplicates removed - Percentage of actual vote - Total bad votes - Percentage of bad votes

PHIL HARE - 34 - 25.954% - 6 - 15%
PORTER McNEIL - 26 - 19.847% - 10 - 27.78%
MIKE JACOBS - 17 - 12.977% - 12 - 41.38%
JOHN SULLIVAN - 13 - 9.924% - 6 - 31.58%
MARK SCHWIEBERT - 12 - 9.160% - 12 - 50%
MIKE BOLAND - 11 - 8.397% - 6 - 35.29%
TONY SOPRANO - 8 - 3.107% - 0 (the only honest vote)
TED BRUNSVOLD - 7 - 5.344% - 3 - 30%
PAT O'BRIEN - 2 - 1.527% - 13 - 86.67%
PAUL MANGIERI - 1 - 0.763% - 0

A couple notes: Porter McNeil, Tony Soprano, Ted Brunsvold, and Pat O'Brien never officially put themselves forward as seeking to be the congressional candidate and didn't publically seek support. Mike Jacobs put himself forward, but then took his name out of consideration back on the 5th.

Poll #11 Bush opinion poll

Question: Thinking of George W. Bush's entire term in office, would you say you:


Think he's a bold leader, the best president in history.- 6 votes or 12%

Are very satisfied - 2 votes or 4%

Are somewhat satisfied - 3 votes or 6%

Are totally uninformed and have no opinion - 0 votes or 0%

Are somewhat dissatisfied - 2 votes or 4%

Are very dissatisfied - 7 votes or 14%

Think he should be impeached or jailed, the worst president in history: 30 votes or 60%

Poll ran March 1-7, 2006

Final vote total: 50

Poll #10 Gubenatorial primary preference poll

Question: Who do you prefer in the upcoming Democratic gubenatorial primary?

Poll ran March 1-7, 2006

Final valid vote total with overvotes removed:

Edwin Eisendrath - 21 votes or 61.76%

Rod Blagojevich - 13 votes or 38.24%

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Poll #9 Grchan - Huff R.I. Sheriff primary preference poll

Question: Who do you prefer in the Rock Island County Sheriff primary?

Poll ran February 11-18, 2006

100 votes total cast.

50 votes were overvotes, multiple votes from one computer.

Final valid vote total with overvotes removed:

Sargeant Mike Huff - 29 votes or 58%

Sheriff Mike Grchan - 21 votes or 42%

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Poll #8 Weekly readership poll

Question: How many times a week do you check in on The Inside Dope?

Ignoring joke votes (Never, I'm voting telepathically) results are:

14 or more: 11 or 37%
7 to 14 times: 10 or 33%
5 to 7 times: 3 or 10%
3 to 5 times: 3 or 10%
2 or 3 times: 3 or 10%

The choices were badly written as they overlapped. My fault.

Poll #7 36th District State Senate Rumler-Jacobs primary preference poll

Question: If the 36th District state senate primary were today, who would you prefer?

Poll ran Jan. 6 - 13, 2006

Total votes cast: 130

Several people voted multiple times. Actual results with overvotes removed:

Rumler - 81 votes or 81.82%
Jacobs - 16 votes or 16.16%
Other - 1 vote or 1.01%
No preference, too soon to tell - 1 vote or 1.01%
Neither - 0 votes

Poll #6 Best course for Democratic Party Poll

Question: "Which do you feel would be the best course for the Democratic party overall"

Total votes cast: 25

1. Continue to capitulate to the right on such issues as guns, abortion, gays, and pro-corporate measures and generally move to the right. - 6 votes or 24%

2. Move back to the left and stand up for traditional ideals of social and economic justice. - 19 votes or 76%

Poll #5 Illinois 71st Legislative District preference poll

Illinois 71st Legislative District preference poll

4 day poll
June 24th - 28th, 2005

Question: "If Mike Boland chooses to run for a different office, who would have your support to win the 71st district seat?"

Total votes cast: 1013

1. PORTER MCNEIL: 552 votes - 54.5%

2. Dennis Ahern: 430 votes - 42.4%

3. None of the above, I want
Boland to stay: 10 votes - 1%

4. Steve Haring: 6 votes - 0.6%

5. Tony McCombie: 5 votes - 0.5%

6. Jerry Lack: 4 votes - 0.4%

7. Another Republican: 4 votes - 0.4%

8. Mike Huntoon: 1 vote - 0.1%

9. Another Democrat: 1 vote - 0.1%

10. Mike Smiddy: 0 votes - 0%

11. Phil Banaszek: 0 votes - 0%

Poll #4 Illinois 72nd Legislative District preference poll

Illinois 72nd Legislative District preference poll

4 day poll June 29th - July 2nd, 2005

Question: "If and when Pat Verschoore retires, who would have your support to win the 72nd District seat?"

Total votes cast: 1050

Poll cancelled due to excessive vote tampering. Hundreds of votes flooded in for O'Brien in the last hour, more than he'd receieved in the entire 4 day run of the poll.
It was apparent that before this occured, it would be a tight contest between Pat O'Brien and Clarence Michael Darrow.

Total votes cast: 1050

1. Pat O'Brien: votes - %
2. Clarence "Michael" Darrow (D-Rock Island): votes - %
3. Tom Benson (D-Rock Island): votes - %
4. Lisa Bierman (D-Coal Valley): votes - %
5. Pat Veronda (D-Moline): votes - %
6. LuAnn Kerr (D-Rock Island): votes - %
7. Mark Schwiebert (D-Rock Island): votes - %
8. Jeff Terronez (D-Rock Island): votes - %
9. Another Democrat: vote - %
10. Don Sharp (R-Rock Island): votes - %
11. Stan Leach (R-Moline): votes - %
12. Another Republican: votes - %

Poll #3 Opinion of Lane Evans' indication he'll run for a 12th term

Opinion of Lane Evans' indication he'll run for a 12th term

3 day poll
2:00 a.m. July 8th - midnight July 11th, 2005

Question: "Rep. Lane Evans has indicated he intends to run for a 12th term. What do you think of this decision?"

Total votes cast: 85

1. Evans should step down gracefully, accepting our sincere gratitude for his long service, and back a new candidate.: 71 votes - 83.5%

2. Right of Evans and best for the party.: 13 votes - 15.3%

3. I don't know if it's best for Evans, but it's good for the party.: 1 votes - 1.2%

4. Not thrilled but he's the best candidate we could have.: 0 votes - 0.0%

Poll #2 Opinion of Gov. Blagojevich's decision to spend $10 million on stem cell research

Opinion of Gov. Blagojevich's decision to spend $10 million on stem cell research.

4 day poll
July 19th - 23th, 2005

Question: "Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich recently ordered that $10 million be spent on stem cell research. What are your thoughts on this?"


Total votes cast: 89

1. (1) Good use of the money. Stem cell research is promising in relieving misery and disease for many people in the state. It was forward thinking and a responsible move.: 47 votes - 52.8%
2. 2, 3, and 4.: 31 votes - 34.8%

3. (4) Governors shouldn't make decisions to spend money on such things without involving the legislature.: 6 votes - 6.7%

4. (3) Stem cell research is unethical and should never be funded by government.: 2 votes - 2.2%

5. 2 & 4: 2 votes - 2.2%

6. 3 & 4: 1 vote - 1.1%

7. (2) It's irresponsible to be spending this much money on research when the state is in such bad financial shape.: 0 votes - 0.0%

8. 2 & 3: 0 votes - 0.0%

Poll #1 Open and democratic local primaries

Open and democratic local primaries

4 day poll
12:00 a.m. Aug. 10th - noon Aug. 15th, 2005

Question: "Should there be free and open competition in local Democratic primary elections?"

Total votes cast: 141

1. Yes, the public should be exposed to all qualified candidates and be able to choose their candidate democratically.: 119 votes - 79.9%

2. No, party discipline is too important to leave candidate choice up to the people of the district. State party leaders have the right to support only incumbants and to exclude and work against interetsted challengers.: 30 votes - 20.1%