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Voted on a few of these things and the percent of support surprised me. I wonder what group of people keep skewing these polls. I know online polls aren't anywhere near accurate, but the percents still surprised me.

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Yeah, seems pretty skewed right/conservative in the few bills I voted on. I have seen this phenomenon before, for example in Votizen, where a lot of well organized Ron Paul supporters are some of the earliest adopters of online political tools.

So get your preferred groups to make use of the handy widgets PopVox makes available for easily contacting Congress on whatever their important-bill-of-the-moment is. https://www.popvox.com/services/widgets

(You can embed them in your personal homepage too. It's free. I've got an anti-SOPA one on my homepage.)

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