Original sentence: Like other on-line polls,.Pajamas Media began running web-based straw polls for the 2008 U.Pajamas Media has reported efforts to stack their polls in favor of Paul.Presidential race in early 2007.They have been criticized for their policy of excluding candidates who gain less than 1% support in the most recent Gallup Poll (Ron Paul in particular) while including non-candidates such as Al Sharpton and Al Gore
Edited sentence: A columnist who supports Ron Paul has criticized Pajamas Media for dropping Paul from the site's presidential straw polls and declaring him unelectable, despite his receiving more than 40% of the vote in the 19 February 2007 poll.He has yet to score significantly on any national poll, his best being a mere 3% on Zogby.Of course this could change.On the other hand the polls include candidates who are not even running such as Al Sharpton, Al Gore and Wesley Clark on the Democrat poll and George Pataki, Newt Gingrich and Fred Thompson on the Republican poll.Pajamas Media would like to note, however, that the vast majority of his votes in our poll (1331 of 1725) were placed right here on the portal site, suggesting a determined effort by his supporters to “bomb” this poll.The 2008 straw polls seem futile with regard to the actual candidates who are running.The paleo-libertarian seems to be a purely Internet Phenomenon.The polls do not include Ron Paul, Dennis Kusinich or Mike Gravel, all three of whom participated in the debates and had officially declared their candidacies.Thompson, Gingrich and Gore may be legitimate as contenders who are likely to toss their hats into the ring, but Pataki, Sharpton and Clark represent nothing more than arbitrary replacements for the three legitimate candidates the polls have ommitted.When Paul was reinstated for the 2 April 2007 poll, he received 29% of the vote, but Pajamas Media noted that: