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My mother answered the phone two nights ago. The caller asked for me by name, but I haven't lived there for a few years. The caller took down my up-to-date phone number, but then also told my mother that she was conducting a political poll and wondered if she might answer a few questions.
My mom agreed. She's a strong Independent, and would never dream of joining either particular party, but she is not a fan of the Idiot in Chief and has mentioned she plans to vote ABB this fall.
They asked her, of George W. Bush and John Kerry, who would she likely vote for in November? She told them Kerry. They asked her what she felt about the job situation. She said, "What jobs?" (My dad has been laid off repeatedly in the last year and a half). They asked if my parents' economic situation was better off or worse off than this time last year, and my mom told her that it was about the same (bad).
Then, according to my mom, the real fun began. They started asking hugely and blatantly biased questions. She couldn't remember too many of them, but one she said was as follows:
"If John Kerry was president instead of George W. Bush, Saddam Hussein would still be in power, torturing, gassing and killing his own people. Knowing that, would you rather vote for George W. Bush or John Kerry in the election this November?"
My mom got angry with this line of questioning, and said that she wanted to give them a piece of her mind and hang up, but she also wanted her opinion heard in this poll (not that it really would've mattered much).
She said that the poller had said she would call me also, but she hasn't done so yet. I really hope that they do call me.
Bastards.
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