True enough... back in the day, touring to racing bike styles were all part of a continuum within the category of road bikes. But language evolves and so have bikes. Back in the day there were only subtle differences between a touring bike (i.e. in its base form, not fully outfitted) and a racing bike - frame geometry, tubing gauge, eyelets, gearing, brakes, handlebars. From a distance they'd look pretty similar. Nowadays, not only have these two sub-categories grown apart to the point that there's no mistaking the diffence between a modern race-oriented bike and a true touring bike (though their may be some freaks I'm not aware of); but there is a distinct "roadie" culture that has co-opted the term "road bike" to describe a road race-oriented bike, and this definition is pretty generally understood and used as such in the overall bike community and the marketplace.
Be that as it may, in this poll I defined my bikes as Road because that seemed a closer fit than "Other", and in their time they were all most definitely considered "road bikes", which still comprehended the whole continuum from racing to touring bikes.
As a side note, back in the bike boom days, a lot of low-end (department store) as well as entry level bikes of decent quality were marketed to the masses of decidedly non-bike racers as "racing bikes", and obviously neither the manufacturers nor the purchasers entertained any notions of such bikes being used in anything resembling a serious competitive bike race. Perhaps the term "racing bike" was tainted by such shenigans; while the term "road bike" does not have any presumptuous overtones that open it up to mockery.