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Anti-Obama Push Polling In Ohio?

10 Sep 2008 04:57 pm

Note: to be a push-poll, negative message-testing calls have to be placed in a certain volume; hence the ability to "push" a message. See more here.

But this call sounds very suspect. Jared Littleton, a student in Columbus, Ohio e-mails the following:

"...just got off the phone with a polling company.  While I do not know that I can technically define their questions as a push poll, the company, Opinion Access, was definitely testing negative statements about Barack Obama to see if it would sway my vote.  They began with baseline questions to determine my support for Obama, and th[e]n proceeded to read/refer to the following issues to see if it would make me more or less likely to vote for him (or I could say that I wouldn't believe it):

Spiritual advisor said American brought the 2001 attacks on itself
voted against requiring schools to install monitoring software for
pornography

Obama's spiritual advisor stated that US created HIV to kill people of color
has voted to restrict 2nd amendment rights

voted against toughening policies against gang members

only legislator that refused to support legislation that would force adult
stores to not be near schools or churches

voted for sex education for kindergartners
born alive education

They then re-asked the initial baseline questions to see if my support for
Obama had changed at all.

While I may have missed a couple of the issue questions, I think I wrote down the vast majority.  The statement regarding the software monitoring and the adult stores were the only items I have never heard before.

The poll[s]er would not indicate what campaign these questions were being asked
as a part of. ....
Has anyone else gotten calls like these?

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