ABC Denver station discriminates against a candidate?

Ok we get it that Denver television station channel 7 on their website decides the supposed front runners despite that the poll is not finished and has some inherent bias. The title for of their poll is: “Online Survey Shows Giuliani, Clinton Leading” certainly shows the front runners they consider the most important. But they do show some consideration of other candidates. But they dump on Ron Paul a bit by saying in a past tense sort of fashion that Ron Paul:
“garnered only 3 percent of those responding to the question, “If the presidential election were held now and you could vote for any candidate, who would you vote for? That percentage doubled Monday morning, after the online publication of this story.”

Well later Monday that changed quite a bit. But we will get back to that in just a little bit.

At the risk of sounding umm… tin-foil hat there is a major inherent bias in this whole poll that we haven’t even gotten to.

The website has a coding flaw that makes it impossible for approximately 20 – 30% of viewers to see “Ron Paul” as a choice! Text is moving from where it should be and blocking him from being seen.

That picture shows the website, the text of the story and a picture that is next to the poll. Using Firefox the two hyperlinks that are under the picture are not placed correctly and they move. They are blocking Ron Paul from being seen at all by the 20 to 30 percent of web surfers use Firefox!

This has been tested by myself and some webmaster colleagues of mine on a few Windows machines at different screen resolutions and on versions of Firefox from 2.08 to 2.10. They all don’t show Ron Paul as a choice on that page.

The Internet Explorer version works just fine.

Even zoomed in a bunch and cropped it is still impossible to read:

Consulting with the other webmasters, we are not sure this was deliberate. It is a thing that happens sometimes when people write a page for one browser (Internet Explorer) and then forget to check it in the other browsers (Firefox, Safari, Opera, etc.). We are trying to give them the benefit of the doubt. We have not thoroughly looked through the html code of that page to determine why this happened. It is quite a complex page with a lot of scripts and umm ads. But looking through the ABC Denver site in Firefox does not show any other pages with the same formatting problems. One has to wonder….

O BTW – Ron Paul is still winning even though maybe about 25% of people can’t see him as a choice. Feel free to go there and look. If you want to vote I hope you use Internet Explorer for at least that one site