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Push poll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A push poll is a political campaign technique in which an individual or organization attempts to influence or alter the view of respondents under the guise of conducting a poll. In a push poll, larg...
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During the 2000 presidential primary elections, Bush's campaign strategists, including Karl Rove, devised a push poll against John McCain. South Carolina voters were asked.
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Each weekday, a new and insanely interesting word or phrase. We specialize in new and recently coined words. ... A legitimate public-opinion poll seeks to tally the views of the respondents, while a push poll gets its name from its intention to push voters away from an opponent and toward the candidate who paid for the calls.
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And What Isn't? ... And even politicians know that push polls are wrong. But what is a push poll anyway? Fundamentally, what people label a push poll isn't a poll at all. A push poll is political telemarketing masquerading as a poll.
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Andrew Malcolm of the Los Angeles Times reports evidence of a pro-Clinton "push poll" in California, or as he defines it, "malicious political virus that is designed not to elicit answers but to spread positive information about one candidate and negative information about all others under the guise of an honest poll."
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Many organizations have posted definitions (AAPOR, NCPP, CMOR, CBS News, Campaigns and Elections, Wikipedia), but the important thing to remember is that a "push poll" is not a poll at all. It's a fraud, an attempt to disseminate information under the guise of a legitimate survey.
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I use that as an introduction to the whole IA/NH anti-Romney push poll stories. Phil Elliott at the AP and the Politico’s Jonathan Martin have stories about this. Several facts jumped out at me that make it clear that this is a made for outrage, made for media thing.
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Think about it: Voters in New Hampshire answer their phone call and hear this push poll against Romney... but they don't go to this blog or to the Politico to discover that it was a push poll and that Romney has been victimized.
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I had heard about Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt being spread anecdotally, and I had read Microsoft press releases that seemed a little bizarre, but this was the first time I had actually seen a push poll in action.
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North Carolina activist David LaMotte just got a push poll call from the firm of Geoff Garin, the new head of Hillary Clinton's campaign team. ... I just received a push poll last night here in Indiana. the woman said she was from PSA polling service and that she didn't know who commissioned the poll - but it was obvious...
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