In anonymous poll, a victory for Obama
In an election year when voters are being carefully — almost obsessively — monitored by countless pollsters, Yale can now count a few of them among its undergraduate ranks.
#2
By (Anonymous)
6:54pm on February 13, 2008
So, uh, how exactly did they get a list of all Yale email addresses? This is spam right?
#3
By (Anonymous)
10:13pm on February 14, 2008
Re: comment by #2:
Yeah, it's spam alright. They didn't have permission to spam all students, their email was unsolicited, and they didn't identify themselves. Spam, spam, spam.
They also violated Yale's acceptable use policy, so I hope there's some follow up from ITS or the Dean's Office.
Schoen gives take on candidates’ chances
I think the fact that the pollsters didn't identify themselves or provide any information to reassure students that the survey was legit was damaging to their results, especially given that it came after two e-mails from Yale ITS warning against malicious "phishing" e-mails that asked for your personal information. I wanted to participate in the survey (having a strong opinion on the election) but held back for that reason.
Also, didn't Yale students already vote in Wards 1 and 22 (and some in Ward 2) on February 5? What's the use of poll data collected after election day? It doesn't seem like they even know what they want to use it for either. In all due respect, this seems like a case of too much initiative with too little direction (not rare at Yale, to be sure).