Reply #9: Most of them aren't from jouralists, though

[Dogmudgeon]

Unless you consider Fox News to be journalism, though most professional journalism organiations don't. Pro journalists probably already have codes of conduct which disinclude push polling -- typically, a journalist will have several codes to follow, depending on the journalism societies s/he is involved in and the clients s/he works for.

Wider self-imposed restrictions on push polling will only happen after push polls become part of a negative news cycle in which the national pundits express their disapproval. I don't mean Tweety and Rush, I mean the Eminences Grises like Dan Rather. On the Right, it would have to come from Roger Ailes, head of Fox News itself.

This is one of the reasons why I ignore pleas to "DU this poll!" It's an exercise in futility. Such polls fool nobody.

--p!