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push polling
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push polling
n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the use of loaded questions in a supposedly objective telephone opinion poll during a political campaign in order to bias voters against an opposing candidate


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The SEIU denied any involvement with the mailer and the push polls.
John Zogby said in a statement defending the poll: "We reject the notion that this was a push poll because it very simply wasn't.
The Huffington Post website reported that a reader, named Rachel from Strongsville, Ohio, complained of a push poll that portrayed Obama as a radical leftwinger who had voted to let convicted child sex offenders out early and to allow them to live near schools.
 
 
 
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