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From my husband's blog:
Friday, September 22, 2006
Offensive Phone Call from Republican Pollster
If Sonny Perdue were caught raping your grandmother, while shooting a spotted owl over his shoulder, would you be more inclined to vote for him, less inclined to vote for him, or would it make no difference?
If Casey Cagle was spotted defecating on a copy of the Constitution while wearing a Klu Klux Klan robe, would you be more inclined to vote for him, less inclined to vote for him, or would it make no difference?
Of course these are ridiculous questions, and I would never stoop so low as to such a tactic just to win an election... No Really, why are you looking at me like that?
I know, I know, you're saying to yourself "What the Hell are you talking about?" Sunday Sept. 17th in the evening, I got a strange phone call from a man with a slight accent (outsourced?) saying he was conducting a poll and did I have a few minutes. Ok, that right there set off alarm bells, a "few minutes" always means you'll be late for work, write it down.
Just a few minutes into the survey, poll, push poll, whatever you call it, I could tell this was not an objective poll. Actually, are there any objective polls, when it comes to politics? "Polls are only as accurate as the framing of their questions," according to the Progressive Handbook, chapter one, by the Rockridge Institute. And it was obvious to me from the outset, that this was being conducted for a Republican or conservative candidate, when the "pollster" asked me a question which used the term "trial lawyers." So anyway, by the end of the poll, I forgot about objectivity and curiosity because I lost it. One question pissed me off, and I lost my cool. I told the "pollster" that he should be ashamed of being involved in what was obviously a push poll concerning the State Supreme Court elecion between Justice Carol W. Hunstein vs Perdue waterboy Mike Wiggins. Sorry for paraphrasing here, but I can't remember the exact words. The question went something like this: "Would knowing Carol Hunstein said adult pedophiles that solicit sex from children over the phone should not be prossecuted make you more inclined to vote for her, less inclined to vote for her, or would it make no difference?" After an exchange with Tim from Dekalb and my State House candidate, I'm 99% certain that this was not a push poll, but a field test for certain "messaging" strategies. A push poll, said a friend, generally asks no more than one or two questions, unlike this phone call which lasted at least 10 minutes. Also, my State House candidate claimed he hired a firm to conduct similar research, and that there was one question that was similarly inflamatory, so he had them take it out of the survey because it was too over the top. Apparently, Mike Wiggins has no qualms with absurd questions like the one I was asked.
A google search of the phone number yielded some interesting results concerning a firm called Venture Data3, and on one of it's pages is a curious statement concerning push polls.
Since then, I used the email link to Justice Carol Hunstein's campaign and told them about the call, agreed to put her yard sign in front of our home, and contacted all of my friends, especially in West Ga., to post signs and put out the word for Hunstein!
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