I've been Push Polled!

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Sir_Galahad · #1 Post by **Sir_Galahad** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 3:53 pm

Inasmuch as the primary is tomorrow we have been bombarded with radio ads and phone calls from various the candidates. Well, not from the candidates themselves and, in fact, not even from a live person. I did receive an interesting automated "survey" from the Huckabee camp. It was actually a Push Poll disguised as a survey but I played along. They asked me to choose who I favored in tomorrow's primary. When I told them Thompson, they went into a "Did you that Fred Thompson yada yada yada...? and then asked me if I knew that Huckabee supported such and such would I be more likely to vote for him? I answered four of these questions with a resounding NO! and was met with a 'click.' I guess I showed them.

wbtravis007 · #2 Post by **wbtravis007** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 4:01 pm

And we all know how painful that can be.

I tell ya. I learned a long time ago that if anybody asks you if you want to be push poled, or in any way indicates that they're gonna do it without asking, you get the hell out of there.

wbtravis007 · #3 Post by **wbtravis007** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 4:02 pm

Oh.

Wait a minute.

Never mind.

wbtravis007 · #4 Post by **wbtravis007** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 4:06 pm

Sir_Galahad wrote:Inasmuch as the primary is tomorrow we have been bombarded with radio ads and phone calls from various the candidates. Well, not from the candidates themselves and, in fact, not even from a live person. I did receive an interesting automated "survey" from the Huckabee camp. It was actually a Push Poll disguised as a survey but I played along. They asked me to choose who I favored in tomorrow's primary. When I told them Thompson, they went into a "Did you that Fred Thompson yada yada yada...? and then asked me if I knew that Huckabee supported such and such would I be more likely to vote for him? I answered four of these questions with a resounding NO! and was met with a 'click.' I guess I showed them.

I guess you're saying that you don't think that Fred Thompson is an idiot, right?

themanintheseersuckersuit · #5 Post by **themanintheseersuckersuit** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 4:29 pm

Sir G, maybe if both us vote for Fred tomorrow, we can swing to primary his way.

Sir_Galahad · #6 Post by **Sir_Galahad** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 4:45 pm

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:Sir G, maybe if both us vote for Fred tomorrow, we can swing to primary his way.

I hope so. I'm just hoping that he has a strong enough showing so that he sticks it out until Super-Tuesday.

And, if I hear The Huckster's radio ad "Faith doesn't just..." one more time, I'm gonna puke. If I was voting for a Baptist Minister, he'd be my guy. But, he ain't - and I ain't.

Bob Juch · #7 Post by **Bob Juch** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 4:58 pm

Sir_Galahad wrote:
themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:Sir G, maybe if both us vote for Fred tomorrow, we can swing to primary his way.
I hope so. I'm just hoping that he has a strong enough showing so that he sticks it out until Super-Tuesday.

And, if I hear The Huckster's radio ad "Faith doesn't just..." one more time, I'm gonna puke. If I was voting for a Baptist Minister, he'd be my guy. But, he ain't - and I ain't.

Sounds like David Beasley.

What's Jim Hodges up to now?

TheCalvinator24 · #8 Post by **TheCalvinator24** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 7:17 pm

Sir_Galahad wrote:Inasmuch as the primary is tomorrow we have been bombarded with radio ads and phone calls from various the candidates. Well, not from the candidates themselves and, in fact, not even from a live person. I did receive an interesting automated "survey" from the Huckabee camp. It was actually a Push Poll disguised as a survey but I played along. They asked me to choose who I favored in tomorrow's primary. When I told them Thompson, they went into a "Did you that Fred Thompson yada yada yada...? and then asked me if I knew that Huckabee supported such and such would I be more likely to vote for him? I answered four of these questions with a resounding NO! and was met with a 'click.' I guess I showed them.

FTR, the Huckabee campaign has condemned the push polling and has asked (via public statements) the group doing it to stop. It's a group not affiliated with the campaign. Huckabee cannot contact them directly to tell them to stop because to do so would violate campaign laws.

SportsFan68 · #9 Post by **SportsFan68** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 11:37 pm

I hate those and won't participate even if I like the candidate.

I tried to take a rocket.quiz today about which political party I belong to. After the survey Qs, it insisted that I choose at least one special offer before it would give me my results, so I blipped it. It demanded an address, so I tried to give it a fake one, which caused it to say, "Enter a valid address." So I entered the address of the post office in Alamosa, CO.

All for naught, as I refused all the special offers. What a racket.

Based on the answer choices, I'm guessing that a person would be classified as Democrat, Republican, Green, or Libertarian. I tried to answer a mix of Dem, Green, and Lib and wonder what it would have picked for me. I'll never know, though.

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