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Push Polling alive and well in Philadelphia
So all this McCain Pennsylvania endgame stategy stuff is for real. It's effectiveness, however, is up for debate.
For a possible glimpse at the inner workings of the strategy, we direct you to Chris McKenna's blog, ihavethe.info, as he recounts being push polled on Sunday night.
I was asked a series of demogrpahic questions. age, family income, highest education level completed, etc.
I was asked if I had seen various ads by the McCain campaign and the Obama campaign. The first couple I had seen or heard.
Then things started going the wrong way.(or right way depending on your perspective.)
The format for answers were typically:
More likely, less likely, no different.
Q:If you saw an ad in the National Journal, stating that Barack Obama was going to need to raise 1 trillion dollars in new taxes in order to pay for his proposed programs, how would this effect your vote?
There were several variations on this question, all rotating around the point that Obama plans to raise levy 1 trillion dollars in new taxes. including:
Q:If you saw an ad where Barack Obama said that he thought Joe the Plumber’s wealth should be ’spread around’ (or somesuch) would this make you more likely, less likley or have no effect on your vote?
Side note: I’d love to know if the script this woman read the questions from changed based on my household income. I didn’t think to ask that. I did stop the poll at one point to ask her if she knew who was paying for her to call me that night. She said she did not, and immediately transferred me to her manager, a guy named ‘Mr. Reese’.
Mr. Reese claimed he couldn’t tell me who had paid the contract to make the call. He said he didn’t know. I politely persisted in asking him for about 5 minutes until he told me that the contract was under something called ‘Target State Tracking’, a term so massively generic that googling it later got me nowhere.
I finished the poll after speaking with him. There was a question about whether I had heard about Rep. Murtha calling Western PA voters racist. And another one in which I was asked, True or False, that I had heard neighbors say that they thought other folks in my nieghborhood would not vote for Barack Obama because he was black.
Creepy and weird.
Full post HERE.
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