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Jim Lane

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3. Why do you call that a push poll?
Sat Feb 17, 2018, 04:33 PM
Feb 2018

When a campaign commissions a poll to get information that the campaign intends to use, that's partisan, but it's not a push poll. If I were running one of the Republican campaigns, I'd want to know the answers to the questions you were asked.

A push poll is one that's not intended to get information, but to disseminate a point of view, using the guise of a poll so as to gain credibility. An example would be, "Would you be less likely to vote for Sherrod Brown if you knew that he ____ {insert absurd falsehood about Brown}?"

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