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Edited on Sun Nov-06-05 02:36 PM by ticapnews
While in the recent past we engendered some controversy over our overly-broad use of the term "push polling" to describe the normal and more commonly-accepted practice of raising negatives inthe course of a normal poll, we feel confident that this time around, the term of art is properly applied.
In this case, the first report came into us via email from a reader shortly after 5:00 PM this afternoon. Their email included the notice on their caller ID, and then described the call as follows:
1. It identifies itself as a survey.
2. It asks if I plan on voting in the Nov 2 election. My answer: Yes.
3. It then asks if I plan on voting for Measure 36, and then gives a summary of the measure. (The summary sounded exactly like the short Voters' Pamphlet version, no pushing yet.)
4. It proceeds to tell me that in Massachusetts, lessons on homosexuality will be delivered to elementary schoolers, and that when parents objected, they were rebuffed and told that they had no choice because gay marriage was now legal in Massachusetts. It then went on to ask if I felt this might become a problem in Oregon.
Before we had a chance to get into research mode, the reader in question got the jumpstart on it. Based upon the caller ID information, the firm in question was identified as FEC Research. As you'll note if you click on that URL, visitors are taken to an umbrella firm called ccAdvertising.
Continuing their own research, this reader ran a relevant Google search, from which you can find any number of other negative, if not outright harsh, opinions and characterizations of previous "polls" conducted by FEC. http://communique.portland.or.us/04/10/fear_and_prejudice_in_the_state_of_oregon.htmlhttp://www.electionresearch.com/nav.asphttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22fec+research%22+AND+poll&btnG=Google+Search
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