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clutterbox1830

(395 posts)
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 08:42 PM Jun 2020

I got pushed poll tonight for the presidential election.

The poll was conducted by a real life operator. She did not know who was the sponsor of the poll except it was a "national firm." I'm guessing OAN, Gravis, or Mclaughlin polling firm. Also the operator just read the questions and was not pushy so I didn't blame her for asking all these questions. I know she is just doing her job.

There was over 50 questions. The poll started off like any others do you approve of President Trump? Do you approve of Mike Pence? Do you approve of Joe Biden? What is race? What is your political affiliations? Who you support for president? etc etc

After that the push polling questions starts and there were a lot of them. For example, do you support Donald Trump and his strong approval on the economy or Joe Biden who will likely crash the economy like his policy in 1984? Do you support Donald Trump and his strong conviction or do support Joe Biden and his deteriorating mental state? Does Joe Biden dementia and gaffe bother you? I'm paraphrasing of course, but the push poll survey went on for like 15 minutes. I did call out to the operator that these are push poll questions, but she basically said that she is only doing her job. After each question, I was asked who do you support.

By the way, I declared myself to the operator that I'm as an Evangelical Christian; who regularly attends church; who knows a lot of guns, and has switch my support from Trump in 2016 to Biden just to mess with this poll.

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I got pushed poll tonight for the presidential election. (Original Post) clutterbox1830 Jun 2020 OP
Your last paragraph is hard for me to understand MagickMuffin Jun 2020 #1
Sorry. clutterbox1830 Jun 2020 #2
You did good central scrutinizer Jun 2020 #3
i got polled tonight too. barbtries Jun 2020 #5
I think a lot of people mess with polls anymore Steelrolled Jun 2020 #4
i love push polls. pansypoo53219 Jun 2020 #6

MagickMuffin

(15,933 posts)
1. Your last paragraph is hard for me to understand
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 08:53 PM
Jun 2020
By the way, I declared myself to the operator that I'm as an Evangelical Christian; who regularly attends church; who knows a lot of guns, and has switch my support from Trump in 2016 to Biden just to mess with this poll.

Can you clarify what you mean by it?




clutterbox1830

(395 posts)
2. Sorry.
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 08:59 PM
Jun 2020

Of the tons of questions they also ask me my religion? How often I attend church? Do you own guns? who you supported in 2016?
I wanted to skew their poll and demographics a bit so I told a bunch of untruths about myself.

central scrutinizer

(11,637 posts)
3. You did good
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 09:21 PM
Jun 2020

The last time I got one of these, I got tired of yelling, “what part of crook (asshole, Nazi, idiot) do you not understand?” Your answer had to be one of the following : strongly support, support, neutral, oppose, strongly oppose. What’s the fun in that?

barbtries

(28,769 posts)
5. i got polled tonight too.
Sun Jun 21, 2020, 09:53 PM
Jun 2020

it was fairly straightforward but I minced no words. there were a couple of push type questions and i just laughed at him. i hope it was for trump's campaign.

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