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Josh Doesn't think So But It Sure Sounds Like Push-Polling of Jewish Voters to Me?
Josh thinks this is innocent. "The caller then asked if she would be influenced if she learned that
Obama had donated money to the Palestine Liberation Organization.
The caller also asked how she would vote if she learned that someone on
the Illinois senator's staff had close ties to Palestine.
The 71-year
old woman says she was furious. A woman in a Jewish neighborhood in
Pittsburgh says she got a similar call, described as containing
misinformation and outright lies."
Seems like Push-Polling to me.This does not smell right.
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Comments (8)
Sounds like it to me, too.
September 16, 2008 8:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Republican Jewish Coalition chairman, David M. Flaum, is also a member of the Libby Defense Trust. I wonder if he is a neoconservative?
September 16, 2008 8:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
While we're at it why don't they also ask:
Just hypothetically speaking, suppose Obama abused his children and did cocaine, what would you think about?
What would your reaction be if you found out a major Democratic presidential candidate was having a gay affair?
Its not a push-poll or anything, just research you see....
September 17, 2008 1:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is subtle, so read carefully:
As I said earlier today, this didn't look like a push poll, although the campaign the RJC launches based on the questions it's asking may be just as repugnant.
--David Kurtz
The explanation WHY it did not like push polling was that it was a very lengthy questionaire, taking 15 minutes, while in a push poll you want to get value for money and keep the questioning short, so when you pay one hour wages to your caller worker, you reach more people. Also, shorter questions are less annoying (everyting else being equal).
Possible, this is a preparation for a repubgnant push calling.
By the way, I suspect that Obama could support financial aid to PLO, after all, we support PLO against Hamas. "We" means the American government, bipartisan policy, for better or worse. Extreme politicisation of ME policy makes it very hard to support Israel. This is very analogous to trying to support the pre-teen kids
to defend them from sexual predators with some education, only to be savaged, practically as a moral equivalent of a sexual predator.
September 17, 2008 2:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
I get that. Lets call it an extended push poll.
September 17, 2008 4:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
The questions are so outrageous, people are talking about them. The lies are being repeated here and elsewhere, being spread around the net, and they'll soon be showing up everywhere, out of context, and the gullible, I mean low information voters, will believe them.
That's how they get their bang for the buck.
September 17, 2008 5:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
That right. Sometimes the reaction is worse than the initial event. Just like the uppity nonsense.
September 17, 2008 7:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL. A recent poll of Palestinians shows them favoring McCain over Obama by 5.8%:
"The favorite US Presidential Candidate:
Dr. Nabil Kukali, Director-General of the Palestinian Center for PublicOpinion (PCPO), said that the most significant finding the poll results unveiled is that a substantial rate of the Palestinian public (33.5 %) areat present in favor of Mr. John McCain, the candidate of the US Republicans, as the coming President of the United States of America, whilst Mr. Barack Obama, the candidate of the Democratic Party, scored (27.7 %). (30.4 %) of
the Palestinians said they "favor neither of them" and (8.3 %) declined to answer."
http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=40733
JOHN McCAIN, THE PALESTINIAN CHOICE FOR PRESIDENT!!!!!
Put that on TPM's Front Page
September 17, 2008 7:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
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