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BREAKING: HILLARY CONDUCTING PUSH POLLS IN LAST DITCH EFFORT TO WIN NEVADA (Original Post) Halliburton Feb 2016 OP
2008...... Nyan Feb 2016 #1
Hillary engaging in dishonest, negative campaigning? I'm shocked! cali Feb 2016 #2
Shocked... "Round up the usual suspects!" CorporatistNation Feb 2016 #12
Ten days ago.... Donkees Feb 2016 #3
Dirty. AzDar Feb 2016 #4
Fucking desperate... MrMickeysMom Feb 2016 #5
Of course she is. Dirty campaigning is how she rolls. AtomicKitten Feb 2016 #6
Typical EdwardBernays Feb 2016 #7
Maybe I'm just dumb, but I don't see that call as push polling. napi21 Feb 2016 #8
Sorry,no. You simply don't understand what push polling is. You are wrong. cali Feb 2016 #9
Yes, Big Surprise colsohlibgal Feb 2016 #10
It's a carefully designed stratgey nichomachus Feb 2016 #11
Kavin hasnt reported on this, so it must not be true. bunnies Feb 2016 #13
Well, push-polling helped her "brother-in-law" George W. Bush John Poet Feb 2016 #14
The link admits all campaigns use these to test idea... Sancho Feb 2016 #15

napi21

(45,806 posts)
8. Maybe I'm just dumb, but I don't see that call as push polling.
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 12:01 AM
Feb 2016

As for the later call, Bernie himself said he called for someone to run against Obama, so what's the big deal?

IMO push pulling is a call like the bush campaign did against John McCain when they mafe calls asking "How would you feerl if you knew John McCain had a black child?"

colsohlibgal

(5,275 posts)
10. Yes, Big Surprise
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 12:03 AM
Feb 2016

Hillary and DWS will go as low as they think they have to go.

May not matter though.

People In Nevada get and vote and feel the Bern!

nichomachus

(12,754 posts)
11. It's a carefully designed stratgey
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 12:03 AM
Feb 2016

Seeing how many potential voters she can turn off before the GE. "Screw you, suckers, you have no choice but to vote for me. So, suck it up."

 

John Poet

(2,510 posts)
14. Well, push-polling helped her "brother-in-law" George W. Bush
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 05:06 AM
Feb 2016

to beat back McCain in South Carolina in 2000. They probably all laugh about it at those Clinton-Bush wingdings.

Sancho

(9,070 posts)
15. The link admits all campaigns use these to test idea...
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 05:31 AM
Feb 2016
“This is just the latest in a long, sad list of conspiracy theories from a Sanders campaign that can’t handle the scrutiny they’re now facing. Our campaign has not and does not do push polling,” Jesse Ferguson, a spokesperson for the Clinton campaign, told ABC News. The term push polling is highly charged in political circles and tends to refer to negative or biased polling that could sway the listener.

Sanders pollster Ben Tulchin told ABC News that in his opinion the poll recorded was more negative than anything he ran.


1.) The Sanders pollster says IN HIS OPINION it was more negative...but we all know that other campaigns would say that Sanders is more negative in their opinion? Did the article talk to other campaign pollsters?

2.) The link doesn't reveal the source of the poll...it could be a PAC or just about anyone, including the GOP who was testing ideas. Hell, it could be a college student project. Blaming Hillary for something that is not sourced or possibly simple research is overkill.
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