Bush PUSH-POLLING caught in Wisconsin!

I saw this over at Electoral-Vote.com referring to an article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

First, what is "Push-Polling"? From EV:

push polling is where the pollster (on instructions from the client) asks a very slanted question in order to elicit the desired answer so the pollster can announce how well the client is doing.

Questions like "Do you support John Kerry even though he lied about getting medals in Vietnam?" or "Do you support George Bush even though he deserted the National Guard during war time?" fall in this category.

Legitimate pollsters would never ask such questions. Instead they might ask "Do you believe John Kerry earned his medals in Vietnam?" or "Do you believe George Bush fulfilled his duties in the National Guard?". Those are questions designed to determine public opinion, not create it

Another one was done in South Carolina 2000, when John McCain was running against George W. Bush for the GOP nomination: "If you knew that Senator John McCain has fathered an illegitimate black child, would you be more likely to vote for him or less likely to vote for him?" (See, he had adopted a child from Bangladesh, so you know, the kid was a "darkie" so who'd know the difference.)

So...
A "Democratic activist and former lobbyist" got a call (oops!)from a Republican polling organization Moore Information asking the following question:

"Whose position do you think is closer to the truth - those 'veterans who served with John Kerry' and say that he does not deserve the medals that he received, or John Kerry who disagrees with the veterans that he served with and who appear in the ad?"

That's Push-Polling in Action!

From the Votemaster at Electoral-Votes.com: "I asked the president of Moore Information for his side of the story but he didn't respond. Henceforth I will not use any Moore Information polls. If anyone has documented evidence of other pollsters doing push polls, please let me know."

From a website I don't know anything about, push-polling is...

...phony and reprehensible from top to bottom. The push poll is a Godzilla in sheep's clothing. The tragic thing is, the average American knows far more about Godzilla than about push polls.

Good on ya!