Online Debate Polls: When Fun Is Taken Seriously

The Hill explains why it dropped its online debate poll.

Prior to the first presidential debate, the online poll was an an amusing diversion, like a Twitter like/retweet poll, or a Facebook Y/N post, or a five-question quiz that tells you what city you’re meant to live in, or a one-question quiz that tells you your personality based on your choice of pattern.

In this vein, the question of who won the presidential debate was asked on the websites of publications across the country. The polls and results were meant to be “fun and interesting in their own way,” as The Hill editor in chief Bob Cusack explained to FishbowlDC.

But

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