| Author |
Message |
    
pontoise
Citizen
Username: Pontoise
Post Number: 95
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2004 - 8:33 pm: |     |
I just received a 45 second computerized call/poll concerning the "upcoming elections". They started with questions like (am I registered dem or rep), then they asked questions concerning same sex marriages. BUT, they worded them so that it would be easy to say you were against them if you weren't careful. THEN, they threw in the question "would you vote for taxpayer money being used to pay for prisoners' sex change operations?" Were they perhaps associating gay marriage with something so off the wall as taxpayers paying for sex changes of prisoners?? At the end of the call it stated that this was sponsored by the marriage coalition! %&$@#!!
http://tinyurl.com/2jkh2
Push polling
A type of pseudo-research whose intention is to change opinions (usually on voting) rather than measure them. For example "When did you first become aware that Candidate A is the son of a murderer?"
|
Mayhewdrive
Citizen
Username: Mayhewdrive
Post Number: 845
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2004 - 10:17 pm: | |
Steglitz/Theroux used a similar technique in the election for South Orange Bd of Trustees 3 years ago. At the height of the battle to save the quarry from development, we were given ludicrous questions such as "Does Steglitz's fight for Open Space make you more less or likely to vote for him"
This was from a guy who did everything he could to slow the opposition to the development.
It's a disgraceful technique |
Dave
Citizen
Username: Dave
Post Number: 6464
Registered: 4-1998
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2004 - 10:45 pm: | |
A trip down memory lane....
/discus/messages/129/2968.html
Continuation....
/discus/messages/129/2871.html |
guessagain
Citizen
Username: Guessagain
Post Number: 26
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 7:07 am: | |
Nothing like a bold faced attempt to change the subject of Pontoise's thread.. |
Mayhewdrive
Citizen
Username: Mayhewdrive
Post Number: 847
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 7:40 am: | |
The subject was "I just got push polled, and I'm not happy!"
My response & Dave's were EXACTLY on the same subject.
Perhaps you don't want us reminding people of the slimy tactics used by Steglitz/Theroux.
Well, get over it. |
johnny
Citizen
Username: Johnny
Post Number: 835
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 10:07 am: | |
If you don't like it, hang up. |
pontoise
Citizen
Username: Pontoise
Post Number: 96
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 9:32 pm: | |
Johnny, that's not the point. It lasted only 45 seconds, and it wasn't until the last 2 seconds that I found out who sponsored the "poll".
So Johnny..if you don't like something you just ignore it...hang up...wait for others to do something about it? Sorry, not me. |
ML1
Citizen
Username: Ml1
Post Number: 1590
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 9:44 pm: | |
wasn't push poll that two-headed llama in Dr. Doolittle? |
Chasm
Citizen
Username: Chasm
Post Number: 157
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 10:53 pm: | |
ML1
that was push-me pull-my-finger, I think.
thirdgearrocks |
ML1
Citizen
Username: Ml1
Post Number: 1592
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 11:00 pm: | |
or was it push-me, pole-you?
man, that sounds painful. |
Closed: New threads not accepted on this page