Don't you just love messing with Push Pollers?

[RobertSeattle]

Push Poll Question 1:
Are you more likely to vote for Republican Candidate X or Democratic Candidate Y?
My Answer: Y

Push Poll Question 2:
If you knew that Democratic Candidate Y was "something supposedly negative information against Y" would you be more likely to vote for them?
My Answer Yes!!

Push Poll Question 3:
If you knew that DemocratiC Candidate Y was "another supposedly negative information against Y" would you be more likely to vote for them?
My Answer Yes!!!

Push Poller:
Thank you for you time (meekly)

[C_U_L8R]

1. Keep them on the line

tell them stories
mess with their heads
have fun

[Warpy]

6. Most of 'em are unemployed people

who went into what they thought was telephone sales, got handed a script, and will plug away at it for the next week so they can reset those unemployment bennies.

[Change has come]

14. gives them less time

to mess with the uninformed.

[Lex]

2. Heh. I've done that before. Stringing them along

and interjecting my commentary and fake worry that the questions seem so slanted.

They just plow through, ignoring me.

[napi21]

3. Damn. I never get those calls. All I ever get are the damn recorded

ones, and even then I yell into the phone, even though I know noone can hear me!

[SoCalDem]

4. I tell them I am a republican

and am too "upset" to even vote..
I always mess with polls

sometimes I am a rich hispanic man over 70
sometimes I am a 25 year old black woman
sometimes I am a 50 yr old man..

I am always a "republican" when they ask..and I always skew their polls

If more people did this, it would be a lot more "fun"..:evilgrin:

[BrotherBuzz]

10. I am a republican and am too "upset" to even vote

:rofl:

[saltpoint]

5. Good answers. And yes -- these people deserve to be messed with.

Definitely.

I agree with other DUers here -- hold them on the line as long as you can. Make inquiries, such as:

"Do you think (name of Republican candidate) would support a bill to pay for channeling research? Because my dog died. He was a springer spaniel. We called him Zip. You would have liked him. Anyway, it's real lonely here since he died. He got hit by a car and we couldn't find him for a long time. Then Alice -- she lives down the street -- she was out along her ditch one day when she went to get the mail, and she saw something over in the ditch, near the culvert next to the 7/11 store, and wouldn't you know it, it was Zip. Well, she didn't call us for a long time because we were gone -- I think we were at the grocery -- but pretty soon we came back and just when we were putting up the groceries the phone rang, and it was Alice, and she said they found Zip. And we heard on Montel that some people know how to channel their pets, I mean, channel them if they died, not if they're still alive, so do you think (name of Republican candidate) would be for that? I mean it wouldn't take that much money, would it? How much do you think it would take? That's the big issue here at our house. We want to see how Zip is doing in the afterlife."

[Thickasabrick]

7. Thank you - that made my day

[saltpoint]

8. Kind words, whutgives -- thank you. I'm in a strong anti-Republican

state of mind tonight.

Well, just about every night. :hi:

:dem:

[Old and In the Way]

11. You have me in tears.....

the funny kind. :rofl:

[saltpoint]

17. Hi, Old and In the Way. Thanks. We need more push polls by the

Republicans to test out these strategies.

This last week could be intense. But right now it looks like a lot more Democrats will sit in the 110th Congress.

[mediaman007]

9. I like to critique the survey questions...

for example: Is Amy Klobuchar too liberal?

Reponse: Too liberal as compared to what? Honestly, who put together this survey, what a stupid question? I want to talk to the supervisor.

[upi402]

12. yer not very cowopurait

with thu Rethuglican hacks are yu?

[greenman3610]

13. My favorite ploy for unwanted callers of all stripes

ask them if they've "met Jesus Christ",
then see if you can "save" them and get them
to "pray with me".
Really creeps 'em out.

[Mugu]

15. I agree that lying to pollsters can be great sport and quite entertaining.

However, admitting it on a public forum provides evidence that polls can not be trusted. If Democrats wish to claim vote fraud because the votes don’t match the polls, here is written conformation on a Democratic web site undermining their claim.

Some of the pundits are already preparing excuses for the polling data to not match the results. For instance, claiming that many African-Americans would never admit to voting Republican to a pollster, but once in the voting booth nobody will ever know.


Regards,

Mugu

[RobertSeattle]

16. I don't think even a (R) would take a Push Poll as any evidence of anything

It seems strange, but there is no law against lying your ass off to almost anyone unless you are under oath or it involves police officers.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

18. Yeah, that's why they're push polls

The whole point of them is to plant something in the minds of voters, not to gather accurate data.