I'd say this poll is pretty conclusive, don't you? it isn't 52% 48% split like Brexit where the losing side can muster an argument
If Messi is winning by that much (60% currently) on a Manchester United forum (pro Ronaldo his core base) then can you imagine how much Messi is romping away on these polls on other serious football forums? must be like 80-90% surely!
The only reason it got to a 50/50 split in the first place is because people pitied Ronaldo losing so badly to Messi so gave him a sympathy vote to even things up.. nobody has ever doubted who the better player is, and if this poll was kept open it would probably be 70%/80% in Messi's favour by now over the course of the last year he's balling and completely dominating Ronaldo.
Ronaldo is on the decline, his goal output is nowhere near what it is was in Madrid.. so once he can't match Messi's goal output, the rest of his weaknesses in his game are exposed as inferior to Messi. He only was able to get close to Messi because of his scoring rate.. so to casual football watchers that made him equal but in the eyes of serious intelligent football folk, he was nowhere near.
Like we all said, take away both of their goals and judge on the naked eye their performances on who the better player is, there's no argument.
Like Donald Trump would say, game over! Messi is about to dominate for years folks where Ronaldo will go through a very painful, public decline as he struggles to accept he can no longer compete with The Greatest. Enjoy, folks!