SD-55: Alesi is push-polling

Um (0.00 / 0)

How is it push polling if they are not trying to push you towards or away from any candidate?

It is shoddy polling, but that is a different story.

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by: BH_Liddel_Hart @ Wed Oct 01, 2008 at 21:58:13 PM UTC

having been push polled (0.00 / 0)

This is how the one I got hit with worked.  It was clear from the lead-in which candidate was the one that had done all the bad things they were asking about.  With message-testing (I did a message-testing poll once too), they said "would it change your opinion about Joe Shmo if you knew that he voted against health care", stuff like -- milder and with the candidate's name in the question.

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by: Exile on Ericsson St. @ Wed Oct 01, 2008 at 22:07:47 PM UTC

to clarify (0.00 / 0)

When I got the push poll, I knew nothing about politics and it worked on me.  I went around thinking that Candidate X (it was some guy running for SOS in California) had really embezzled money or whatever it was they were suggesting. Dumb as it sounds, the fact they didn't spell out which candidate had embezzled (or whatever) but just made it clear from context made it more believable to me.  

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by: Exile on Ericsson St. @ Wed Oct 01, 2008 at 22:12:26 PM UTC

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Not exactly a push poll (0.00 / 0)

because they didn't name the candidate in the question.

So its either a terribly done attempt at a push poll or a terribly done negative message test.

Either way its terrible.

Republicans. (sigh)

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by: Amherst Guy @ Wed Oct 01, 2008 at 22:18:31 PM UTC

if those are the actual questions (0.00 / 0)

then it just looks like shoddy polling as has already been mentioned. if they are trying to push poll, they are doing a pretty shitty job of it.

TODAY is day one. It always is.

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by: phillip anderson @ Wed Oct 01, 2008 at 22:43:16 PM UTC

actually... (0.00 / 0)

I think this is pretty well done. I wish it weren't but I think it does plant the seed in the uninformed voter's mind.  

I'm sure which candidate they meant was clear from context.  That's how they often do them.  

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by: Exile on Ericsson St. @ Wed Oct 01, 2008 at 22:45:06 PM UTC

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Actually... (0.00 / 0)

It does sound like a negative message-testing poll. If they were push-polling, they would actually talk issues.

Apparently they are going to hit Nachbar on the fact that he is a bored, rich businessman who decided to run for office. The tax evasion/bankruptcy thing is interesting because those are pretty serious charges to level against an opponent.

And the marriage equality thing is, well, stupid. Just because Alesi hates gays doesn't mean everyone else does.

It doesn't sound like push polling, although that is the perception that is given here. In reality, it seems like they are driving to test-drive some negatives about Nachbar that they are prepared to hit on.

You know what that means? We should be prepared to defend them and counter them.  

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by: robert.harding @ Wed Oct 01, 2008 at 22:58:53 PM UTC