"I Just Got 'Push Polled' by Hillary Clinton’s Nevada Campaign."

[Admiral Loinpresser]

INTERVIEWER: “Hmmm, okay. So, what if I were to tell you The Washington Post said that Bernie Sanders’ campaign promises would cost more than $20 trillion and would raise everyone’s taxes — would you now be “more likely’ or ‘less likely” to vote for Sanders, or has your opinion remained unchanged?”

ME: “That’s not accurate at all. I read that editorial last week. I could tear that completely to shreds. How much time DO YOU HAVE? Let me to set the record straight and explain to you how The Post post misrepresented several of Sanders policy positions.”

INTERVIEWER: “Ummmmm. Uhhhhhhh. So, would you now be “more likely’ or ‘less likely” to vote for Sanders, or has your opinion remained unchanged?”

ME: “My position remains unchanged, because the premise of the question isn’t just misleading. It’s wrong. Do you understand that?”

http://www.nolandalla.com/i-just-got-push-polled-by-hillary-clintons-nevada-campaign/

[NV Whino]

1. And this is why I don't participate in polls.

[Motown_Johnny]

2. We need to find recordings of that poll. n/t

[reformist2]

3. I'd like to ask them if these callers are volunteers, or if everyone on Team Hillary is being paid.

[Helen Borg]

18. Paid, my guess...

[SheilaT]

52. Chances are the persons on the phone isn't directly an employee of the Clinton campaign.

Typically a polling firm of some kind is hired for this, and there's a script that they are not allowed to deviate from, which is why, despite the OP offering valid counter information, the person continued with the script, even though it no longer made sense. I've been push polled in the past, and if you don't swallow whatever crap is said, it goes quickly downhill.

[Agschmid]

65. Not everyone is being paid. Sorry to burst that bubble.

[Vote2016]

4. Question -- is that more disgusting or more predictable? I say it hits a "10" on both scales

[stillwaiting]

5. Cosign. Disgusting campaign. nt

[stillwaiting]

6. And yet another instance where the Clinton campaign is doing something that one would

expect Republicans to be doing.

Fucking hell.

[RiverLover]

7. Dirty Politics

Too bad its happening on our side.

This is republican-sleazy-manipulating trickery.

[OhZone]

8. That's wrong!

I hate push polls, and I just tell them that I know what they're doing and hang up.

But, remember, this is microscopic compared to what the GOP would do to Bernie in the General.

Hold on to your seats.

[RiverLover]

11. Bring It!

People are finally waking up.

[OhZone]

13. Some are, but have you looked at the diversity of this country?

Most of the country is not going to wake up that fast. Sorry. Oh well.

[TIME TO PANIC]

21. What a snobby thing to say. n/t

[OhZone]

27. It's reality -

http://www.gallup.com/poll/180452/liberals-record-trail-conservatives.aspx

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/poll-voters-socialist-atheist-catholic-119273

[TIME TO PANIC]

33. Take a look at the new national polls.

It appears that Sanders has closed the gap. The working class has awakened!

[OhZone]

36. Look at PPP

Brand new PPP poll has Hillary 21 points ahead nationally.

So we'll see.

And I would vote for Bernie as the nominee, but most of the country won't sadly.

Oh well.

[TIME TO PANIC]

45. Not according to the new Quinnipiac and Reuters/Ipsos polls.

Don't buy the propaganda the media tries to sell you. We are not a center-right country.

[TBF]

62. We'll see. Oh well.

Is that working for you?

[greiner3]

30. Yeah Obama will never persuade enough

Of the 'right' voter demographic in time.

[OhZone]

35. Obama is center to center/left.

Not far left.

It was a change election, but he's having a very successful administration, despite extreme GOP obstructionism.

It wasn't a revolution. America doesn't do revolutions except in extreme circumstances.

We need to build on progress not throw it out and start over.

IMHO.

[artislife]

47. It is like you jumped out of bed

and threw the covers off and are awake.

After a long rest.

[A Simple Game]

60. We don't do revolutions? We were born by revolution. We had a civil war.

Social Security was revolutionary, Medicaid/Medicare was revolutionary, the Civil rights laws were revolutionary, you could even argue that going to the moon was revolutionary.

Our Country moves ahead by leaps and bounds, we slowly fall backwards by baby steps.

[JDPriestly]

66. The FDR revolution was much bigger than people realize.

The media does not talk about it.

Look up Works Progress Administration.

That's just one of many, many programs that FDR instituted in order to boost our economy at a difficult time.

Americans are ignorant about the 1930s and FDR's administration.

I know about it because my mother was born in 1916 and lived through the Great Depression. She credited Roosevelt. He was like a saint in her mind. FDR was a fantastic president and he oversaw a democratic revolution.

I don't think that Bernie is talking about nearly as ambitious a program as FDR put through. Bernie calls it a revolution because he wants more political participation by ordinary, working people.

We ordinary working people have very little influence in our government at this time.

Bernie's revolution is to have a positive democratic movement. He is not suggesting having a bunch of crazies running around. I think a lot of people, even some Democrats misunderstand that. But if you listen to Bernie's speeches on YouTube, you understand what he means.

[A Simple Game]

67. There was a lot of socialism coming into play before WWII but that part of US history

before WWII doesn't get talked about much. Probably because it was used to correct the problems runaway capitalism created.

[daleanime]

53. And they would leave Hillary alone?

[amborin]

9. this needs lots of exposure

[TheBlackAdder]

10. I have a land line, I don't participate in polls. Most loaded. Beware CallerID, can be spoofed! nt

[UglyGreed]

12. K/R

[99Forever]

14. This IS Hillary Clinton.

It's exactly why this person should NEVER hold any office ever again.

[pangaia]

15. It is almost everyone EXCEPT Bernard Sanders.

[Helen Borg]

16. Well, you know, apparently Hillary has a "robust" organization in place.

To mislead voters, obviously.

[Paulie]

17. I bet cookies to donuts it's not Hillary's campaign

It's likely one of her super pacs. The campaign wouldn't use hard money for stuff like this. Plus gives them a "hands off" optics.

[PonyUp]

19. Yep. Plausible deniability for her.

[cantbeserious]

20. What More Should One Expect From The Desperate And Depraved - Coronation Or Bust

eom

[TIME TO PANIC]

22. She's using every trick she can, just to lose in the general.

[Kip Humphrey]

23. Wall, meet truth.

[ucrdem]

24. I don't suppose he got the name of the polling firm? He didn't? Fancy that!

So much heavily catapulted righteousness, so little info. That's called demagoguing.

[Admiral Loinpresser]

26. Hillary's unethical, not stupid. n/t

[ucrdem]

28. They'll tell you the name of the firm and the city they're located in if you ask them politely.

That's been my experience for the last 10 years. I have a landline and get tons of pollsters for local, state and national races and about two-thirds are push-polls which are run by marketing firms. They're usually reluctant to divulge and sometimes have to ask permission but they've rarely hung up on the question.

[Admiral Loinpresser]

32. Pollsters will. Push pollers often won't.

This guy couldn't get any info from them.

[ucrdem]

46. LOL, right. "I am working actively for the Bernie Sanders’ Presidential campaign."

He got that info. In any case he didn't ask until he'd already insulted the hell out of the caller and then he did it rudely:

So, who do you work for? I want names.

Of course they haven't called back. Also, he says he has caller ID and apparently it showed a number which he could have followed up on before running to the Twittersphere with his righteous tale. I'm calling BS, sorry, no pun intended.

[Admiral Loinpresser]

59. I think you need to re-read

the link. He didn't get any info from the caller.

[cui bono]

68. Where are you getting that quote from in your subject line?

Are you trying to push the idea that the push poll was conducted by Sanders' campaign?

The push poll was absolutely NOT conducted by Bernie's campaign. It would be pretty stupid to do that to yourself.

.

[cui bono]

50. doesn't sound like you read the blogpost. did you?

Your answer is in there .

.

[zentrum]

25. Any chance you or

…someone you know can call the campaign headquarters and ask for a copy of the questions?

Or, if that doesn't work—maybe contact a local reporter and ask her/him to follow up on this?

This should be a bigger story than just what we can do here.

Write a letter to the Editor of your local paper and describe what you experienced.

Thanks for telling us.

[peacebird]

39. ^^^ this!^^^ write a letter to editor giving the question and detailing the lies!

[Lorien]

64. Yes, this MUST be brought to light!

many voters don't even know what a push poll is. Time to enlighten them!

[PatrynXX]

29. thats negative campaigning

when Hillary says Bernie does negatives no he's point out open facts or open opinions. nothing misleading negative = misleading or lies. attacking a person doesn't mean negative. and also as someone says this is why I'll never participate in a poll

[Admiral Loinpresser]

34. This wasn't a poll.

It was a push poll. Push polls are political dirty tricks.

[PatrynXX]

41. wait how does something that has the word Poll in it not a poll

sorry I have to smile. Yeah I know what you mean but picking up the phone and thinking before hand is it a push poll or a real poll you don't know. Thus why I don't pick up polls.

[Admiral Loinpresser]

44. It's easy to tell the difference.

If they ask your opinion, it's a poll. If they give you "facts" to persuade you, then ask your opinion, it's probably a push poll. Names are funny things, e.g. the "Holy Roman Empire" was nether holy, Roman, or even an actual empire.

[Admiral Loinpresser]

37. If you expect politics to be clean,

you need to back Bernie. I've gotten plenty of poll calls on my land line. I have never gotten a push poll. In my experience they are not common. Only really sleazy candidates use them.

[artislife]

48. I wouldn't bother with that one

Seems like a newly awakened poster. Still has sleep in its eyes.

[Admiral Loinpresser]

49. Didn't notice. Thx! n/t

[cui bono]

69. Bernie's politics are clean.

That's why we need him.

Hillary has already played several dirty tricks so I wouldn't put it past her to do this duplicitous push poll.

And no, they are not common. Only sleazebags do this shit.

.

[HassleCat]

38. Nothing wrong with that

They all do it. Business as usual. Same old same old. Politics as usual. And so on, and so on, and so on.

[AtomicKitten]

40. KO TO HRC: "You are campaigning as if Obama were the Democrat and you the Republican."

Excerpt: "But, in fact, senator, you are now campaigning as if Barack Obama were the Democrat and you were the Republican. As Shakespeare wrote, senator, "that way madness lies.""

Transcript: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/13/transcript-olbermann-anti_n_91330.html

[cui bono]

54. Good find. Or memory... =)

Thanks for posting that!

.

[AtomicKitten]

55. She learned nothing from 2008.

[AZ Progressive]

42. Resorting to these low tactics should say something about the candidate

And, pretty revealing of Hillary

[Nanjeanne]

43. She makes me so sad. So desparate. Such a victim of everyone else's "smears". nt

[cui bono]

51. Hmmm... maybe I'll change the script when I phone bank today...

.

[RoccoR5955]

56. K&R n/t

[RufusTFirefly]

57. Wake up and smell the coffee. She won the Iowa "couscous."

Game over, Bernie Bros!

[nenagh]

58. K&R

[jillan]

61. If anyone gets a call like this - get their name & the name of the polling co they represent.

See what they say. Guaranteed you will get hung up on.

[Lorien]

63. What a scumbag tactic!

Now I'm not just turned off by Hillary, I'm starting to hate the whole fucking party. I've been a Democrat my entire life. This is NOT the party that I started volunteering with decades ago. It's been hijacked by conservative corporate thugs!!

[JRLeft]

70. I cannot get upset with Hillary for doing this. Politics is a big boy game.

Shits just getting ready.

[alittlelark]

71. How is it that I - a 50+ woman has never

been polled or called to jury duty??? What are the odds?

Not that I desire either of them - but what are the odds???!?