The “Break it Down” Blog

Tom Robinson sent in a link to an interesting “general sampling” of the population as far as the presidential election goes, in the form of the AOL.com’s homepage presidential pole.

The results are in and it looks like John McCain dominated the poll oddly enough. Assuming that the Flash-based poll wasn’t hacked, I was initially surprised at the huge lean towards McCain by this crowd, but the more I thought about it, the more it made sense.

I had to think about: “What kind of people use AOL?”, it surely isn’t tech-savvy people or young folks… it’s usually an older crowd that got it pre-installed on their machine from Best Buy, Circuit City or some other big-box store and they didn’t know they had an alternative way to get online. I could imagine the older crowd finding a more comforting/familiar voice in McCain, but I’m still surprised at the complete blow out.

Then again… it’s not like AOL users have ever been the sharpest tools in the shed… (ohhhhh McCain-burn).

Thanks Silicon Alley Insider!