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Jim Lane

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5. I don't draw the same inference about the pollster's honesty.

Reply to No Vested Interest (Reply #4)

Sat Feb 17, 2018, 06:23 PM

Feb 2018

There will evidently be a contested Republican primary for the right to run against Brown. For any Republican contender, the first hurdle is winning the primary. If a poll responder likes Brown and has no intention of voting in the Republican primary, then the pollster wants you to hang up at that point. Nothing you might say will give a GOP candidate any information that's useful to his or her immediate concern.

At least, that's how I'd interpret their motives.

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Push Poll this evening- turned out to be Republican. [View all] No Vested Interest Feb 2018 OP

The kook brothers' 400 mil at work not fooled Feb 2018 #1

Think I would answer that last question..... safeinOhio Feb 2018 #2

Why do you call that a push poll? Jim Lane Feb 2018 #3

The poll on my phone limited my answers by virtue of having me push numbers on the phone No Vested Interest Feb 2018 #4

I don't draw the same inference about the pollster's honesty. Jim Lane Feb 2018 #5