January 31, 2007: Pajamas Straw Poll Widget Beta

You will see to your right a widget for the Pajamas Media Presidential Straw Poll. Those of you who have not voted in the poll i this week can click to open the booth there and vote. Those of you who have already voted will see results from this "precinct" first (RogerLSimon.com), then can click to see ALL VOTES coming in from the Pajamas Media portal and elsewhere (eventually).

Would you be kind enough to test this out and let me know in the comments below how it is working for you.
Please make suggestions if you have them. We went to place this widget on as many blogs and websites as possible (it will be fascinating to see how people are voting at various sites). And we would like to get it working as smoothly as possible.

Muchas gracias.

UPDATE: Already we have found a problem with MSIE 7. Working on it. (Firefox, Safari seemingly okay)

Comments

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Very nice. Would be better if the precinct on the results page said "Roger Simon" for instance, instead of "your precinct."

Posted by: gfinoaktown at January 31, 2007 3:17 PM

Hmmm. Is this some kind of discrimination against non US readers? All I can see to the right are pesky animated adverts for mobile phone providers. I'm using Safari....

Posted by: adhoc at January 31, 2007 3:42 PM

I love the blog that you have. I was wondering if you would link my blog to yours and in return I would do the same for your blog. If you want to, my site name is American Legends and the URL is:

http://www.americanlegends.blogspot.com

If you want to do this just go to my blog and in one of the comments just write your blog name and the URL and I will add it to my site.

Thanks,
Mark

Posted by: J. Mark English at January 31, 2007 4:11 PM

I would appear that it is possible to vote more than once by voting at PJM and then here. I haven't gone to other 'precincts' to see if I could vote again this week but this is something that you might want to address.

Posted by: Cloud Master at January 31, 2007 4:16 PM

It tells me to allow cookies. Went to tools to figure it out, but I defer to any geek on here.

I would make comment but don't know what to say.

Posted by: promoguy at January 31, 2007 5:38 PM

It worked fine. If the Widget is placed on many different sites, many people will vote multiple times at multiple sites. That seems to diminish the concept of "Your Precinct".

Posted by: morganworks at January 31, 2007 6:48 PM

There is a prevent mechanism being introduced for this.

Posted by: Roger at January 31, 2007 7:11 PM

This has nothing to do with your voting thingy (my cookies are not up to snuff apparently, plus, I am Canadian and will not vote, but I am BACKING either Giuliani, Romney or John Kyl (the latter because Mark Steyn likes him);

The important thing is, it looks like mass insanity among the political class in Washington. Bird Flu, Global Warming and now Running Away from Iraq.

Maybe the Islamists have a point here. Maybe we would all be happier with a tribal system, with plenty of time to engage in blood feuds and stoning badly behaved adolescents?

Posted by: heather at January 31, 2007 11:18 PM

"Your browser does not support cookies."

I run default security settings and get cookies all the time. Don't know what the problem is, but I'm not lowering security settings to below normal just to vote at a few sites.
(Window's Professional and Internet Explorer/browser.)

Posted by: mikem at February 1, 2007 2:18 AM

Um, I have Safari 2.0.4 with cookies enabled and am running OS X 10.4.8 and can't vote.

Thought you might want to know.

Posted by: Grantman at February 1, 2007 2:51 AM

I'm running Safari 2.0.4, with cookies enabled, latest o/s updates and can't vote either.

Posted by: AusDoug at February 1, 2007 3:49 AM

"Um, I have Safari 2.0.4 with cookies enabled and am running OS X 10.4.8 and can't vote.

Thought you might want to know."

Me too. I supposedly own the latest and greatest in Aplle products---and I can't vote. Maybe the evil Bill Gates is responsible for our troubles?

Posted by: David Thomson at February 1, 2007 5:07 AM

I get this message.

Sorry your browser does not appear to support cookies.
DWsurvey requires cookie support, please read your web browser documentation about how to enable them
If you have Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, (I don't) please change your security settings to allow cookies from pajamasmedia.com

Do you have any chips w/ guacamole or salsa instead? ;)

Posted by: Lem at February 1, 2007 5:26 AM

OK, I figured out the problem with Safari:

If you look in the Preferences for Safari, under "Security", you have the following choices for cookies:

Accept Cookies:

* Always
* Never
* Only from sites you navigate to (For example, not from advertisers on those sites)

The default, I think, is the last option. Your poll requires Safari to accept cookies from a third party site, however. The answer is to tell people using Safari to allow cookies "Always" in their preferences.

Posted by: Rob at February 1, 2007 8:15 AM

I mean, you got the first cookie monster who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking puppet... I mean, that's a storybook, man.

Kerry who?

Hello plagiarist Joe.

Posted by: Lem at February 1, 2007 9:41 AM

"If you have Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, (I don't) please change your security settings to allow cookies from pajamasmedia.com"

That's a hell of a thing to have to do just to vote at PJM. Either we have to change and restore our settings everytime, or we roam the internet with little or no defense.

Sorry, Roger. I'ld like to oblige to honor your efforts, but not at that price. No one cares what I think anyway (sniff).

Posted by: mikem at February 1, 2007 10:01 AM

Can't vote. I like cookies but not those with unknown ingredients in them. :-(

Why is Bill Gates evil? He's donating his entire fortune to charity. Jobs is in trouble with stock options but the media turns the other way because of the iCharm he has.

iMedia darling?

Posted by: LemonDrop at February 1, 2007 10:52 AM

What you need to do is set the cookie in the referring blog, and read it from the voting booth, maybe. Not a web designer. Advertisers seem to be able to do it.

I'd really like "None of the Above" choices. (Frankly, looking down the two lists, I would have been tempted to vote Notb for both!) Any third-party or independants declared yet? Will they show up?

Posted by: htom at February 1, 2007 12:05 PM

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