GOP Caught Push Polling in Vermont 2006 Senate Race
Sirotablog
Working for Change web site
September 29, 2005
According to this letter published in Vermont's Rutland Herald,
http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050929/NEWS/509290320/1037
the national Republican Party has already started the shady and ethically-questionable practice of push polling in the 2006 U.S. Senate race.
Specifically, Vermonter Tony Gordon reports receiving a call from a out-of-state call center in Nebraska. The caller asked "While it is fine to have a gadfly like [Senate candidate] Bernie Sanders in the House, since Vermont is such a small state, we must have real leadership in the Senate. Do you agree or disagree?" Clearly, as Gordon notes, the question was deliberately phrased to guarantee a desired result and spread misleading information about Congressman Sanders - not to guage actual public opinion. [...] Read the rest at: http://tinyurl.com/cqqdy
© Virginia Metze
Working for Change web site
September 29, 2005
According to this letter published in Vermont's Rutland Herald,
http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050929/NEWS/509290320/1037
the national Republican Party has already started the shady and ethically-questionable practice of push polling in the 2006 U.S. Senate race.
Specifically, Vermonter Tony Gordon reports receiving a call from a out-of-state call center in Nebraska. The caller asked "While it is fine to have a gadfly like [Senate candidate] Bernie Sanders in the House, since Vermont is such a small state, we must have real leadership in the Senate. Do you agree or disagree?" Clearly, as Gordon notes, the question was deliberately phrased to guarantee a desired result and spread misleading information about Congressman Sanders - not to guage actual public opinion. [...] Read the rest at: http://tinyurl.com/cqqdy
© Virginia Metze
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