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May 25th, 2007 at 10:36 am
I didn’t think this was all too uncommon. Usually they identify themselves (what campaign they’re working for) before they ask you if you wanna take the poll. It’s a way of finding out where support lies in a certain area so they know where they stand (while at the same time giving their guy a nudge in your mind).
May 25th, 2007 at 10:46 am
or maybe it was one of the 18 other democrats running
May 25th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
Or maybe it was one of the campaigns doing voter ID work. You said you were going to vote. Which means you will be getting lots of mail from that particular candidate.
May 25th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
Gee thanks Eabo; that is all I needed more campaign literature.
May 25th, 2007 at 7:40 pm
I got the same call.. one I said that I was unenrolled, they hung up..
Wasn’t very professional either.. the kid didn’t know what to do at first when I said I was unenrolled.
They were obviously polling for a specific candidate.. and I figured it was a push-poll for one of the democrats
May 26th, 2007 at 10:54 am
It wasn’t a push poll if they didn’t push you. Eabo is probably right. It’s a voter-id poll. It might be a candidate, or someone else trying to get an idea of the voter turnout. There’s no reason to think any candidate is doing something untoward.
And as for what Lynne experienced, that’s not a push poll either. If anything, it’s a poll by one of the candidates to try to see what message best resonates. No push poll would be a lengthy interview. It’s just “If you knew Candidate X ate babies would you be more or less likely to vote for him” thank you and hang up. If it may as well be a robocall, it’s likely a push poll (some firms actually have used robocalls that ask you to select a number for yes, but of course it’s never recorded).
May 26th, 2007 at 10:55 am
Oh, as for “wasn’t very professional” that’s pretty much par for the course for live polling.
May 26th, 2007 at 5:59 pm
The one Lynne got was sort of centered on one or two candidates, but it didn’t necessarily ’smell’ that leading.
Even specific candidate questions do not have to be leading. If, for example, they ask alot of ‘Tsongas’ questions, without leading you, that just means they are getting resarch on Tsongas… and that could be from the Tsongas campaign or not.
I don’t think it is anything to necessarily worry about.