Today, I received my first recognizable Push Poll. The woman, speaking with
an unclear accent said she was calling on behalf of Western Research in
Orem, Utah. Recognizing the name, from discussions on the blogs about
Lieberman push-polling, I decided to follow along closely.
First, they asked about if I was registered, if I was a Democrat, if I voted
in previous primaries, and how likely I was to vote in the August primary.
I explained that I was a registered Democrat who was very likely to vote in
the primary.
They asked what sort of job I thought Lieberman was doing and told them I
thought he was doing a very poor job. They then asked,, on a scale of 0 to
100 what I thought of George Bush, Chris Dodd, Ned Lamont, and Joe
Lieberman. I gave Bush and Lieberman both 0, Dodd 75 and Ned Lamont 100.
They asked about the Gubernatorial primary and I said I was undecided. They
asked which way I was leaning, and I again said undecided.
They went on to the Senatorial primary and I told them I was voting for
Lamont. They asked how certain I was and I said I was very certain.
Next they moved on to phrases about the candidates. I was trying to type
and answer at the same time, and there was background noise here, so I didn’
t get all of them. They wanted to know who I associated with the following
phrases:
Can’t count on him. (Lieberman)
True Democrat (Lamont)
Out of step with ordinary people (Lieberman)
Trustworthy (Lamont)
Too close to Bush (Lieberman)
They went on to talk about the debate. Were you aware of it? Did you watch
it? Did you watch all of it? (I watched all of it)
Did it make you feel more or less favorable to Lieberman? (much less
favorable)
Did it make you feel more or less favorable to Lamont? (much more favorable)
They asked if it made me more or likely to support one candidate or the
other and I responded much more likely to support Lamont.
With all of this out of the way, they went on to their push polling:
Do the following questions make you feel a little less, more much less
comfortable with Ned Lamont:
He refuses to release his tax information. At this point, I told the
pollster that the statement was incorrect, and that she was acting
unethically by repeating it. She asked the question and I told her it made
me feel much less comfortable with Joe Lieberman that people would be
repeating such false information.
She went on to ask about how Ned Lamont’s claim that he would outlaw all
earmarks made me feel. I repeated that this was false information and it
made me much less comfortable with Joe Lieberman. I urged her to stop
repeating false information.
Perhaps I shouldn’t have been so strident, so I could have heard more of the
false information that they are spreading. However, based on this, she
moved on to final demographics, college education, age, union membership,
religion, ethnicity and income level.
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