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hrmjustin

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Tue Jun 24, 2014, 10:01 AM Jun 2014

Michael Grimm Taking Voters’ Temperatures on Bergdahl Swap

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Jillian Jorgensen

Congressman Michael Grimm’s campaign website is using do-it-yourself polling software to ask voters about the release of U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in exchange for five prisoners at Guantanamo Bay — which the poll misspells as “Guantamo.”

“We want your opinion on the release of five Guantamo Bay terrorists in exchange for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl,” the website declares, with a weathered American flag pattern serving as the backdrop.

Mr. Grimm made his own thoughts on the prisoner swap clear earlier this month as Bergdahl became a major political talking point — “disastrous” was among the words Grimm, a Marine combat veteran, used in his assessment of the deal. But the poll, which is offered in a pop-up box when visitors arrive at the congressman’s re-election website, seeks to take voters’ temperature on the issue.

Read more at http://observer.com/2014/06/michael-grimm-taking-voters-temperatures-on-bergdahl-swap/#ixzz35Z6TqsoO
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