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 Push Polling
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Well, Hillary is at it again. Earlier in this campaign in the Midwest her side had been accused of conducting push polling and she reportedly repudiated it. However there is now evidence that her hired guns are doing it again in North Carolina.

For those are not aware of the meaning of push polling it is where a pollster for a candidate will ask questions ostensibly to get a feeling of the public as to certain issues but instead the questions will actually be posed in a way to point or push a respondent toward a particular point of view.

A political activist in North Carolina by the name of David LaMotte received a phone call from a polling organization and he thought it would be fun to participate in such an endeavor. However, this is a sample of how it went from a tape recording of the call by Mr. LaMotte:

"Hillary Clinton knows that people are being squeezed by the rising costs of everyday items, especially the cost of a gallon of gas. People have been paying through the roof and at the pump, and she thinks it is time the oil companies paid their fair share. She wants to end their special tax breaks and use that money to invest in alternative energy that will create millions of new jobs. As president she will launch a full-scale investigation of the oil companies' price rigging. Upon taking office as president she will lower gas prices by taxing the excess profits of the oil companies and use that money to cut gas tax. Do you consider that a very strong, strong or weak or very weak reason to support her candidacy for president?"

Later on:

"I'm going to read you a few criticisms opponents might make about Barack Obama. For each one please tell me if they give you very major doubts, fairly major doubts, some doubts or no real doubts about supporting Barack Obama for president. At a time when we need leaders who are clear, strong and decisive, Obama has been inconsistent, saying he would remove all troops, but then indicating that he might not, and pledging to renegotiate NAFTA, but then sending signals that he would not actually do so as president. He supported George W. Bush's 2005 energy bill which payed six billion dollars in subsidies to the oil and gas industry, nine billion dollars in subsidies to the coal industry and twelve billion dollars in subsidies to the nuclear power industry. It was called 'a piņata of perks' and 'the best energy bill corporations could buy. Would that leave you with major doubts, some doubts or no real doubts?"

Sure sounds like a non-partisan objective poll to me...right? Well the polling organization was the firm of Geoff Garin, the new head of Hillary Clinton's campaign team. She will do anything it seems to try to get this nomination no matter how much more it cheapens her. Since it worked for George Bush I guess she figures "why not?"

I found this information at the following site which also has a clickon to hear the tape yourself:

Huffington Post

Stay tuned.....

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