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POLITICAL POLLS AND "PUSH" POLLS

"Loaded" questions put to the voting public render potentially "slanted" desirable results which ideally are to be channeled to their comrades in the media or to be used for other self-serving interests. However, like statistical research, poll results today may be obsolete tomorrow due to the public's ever-evolving mind-set that may tend to change day to day depending on who is asking the questions and how they are asked. What people SAY they believe in response to some question may not always be what they ACTUALLY believe.

Deceitful political pollsters conduct biased polls and surveys of voter attitudes then use the "phony" poll results to feed false information to the media about opposition candidates and/or their campaign proposals.

Whoever sponsors a "push" poll purposely twists the poll's questioning procedures and its subsequent results to try and PUSH voters away from the opposition and PUSH voters toward candidates or ideas favored by those paying for or sponsoring the poll. Of course, the poll's sponsor is usually some "do-gooder" sounding organization, a name that may be totally misleading; similar to so-called conservation groups that go out and hunt the animals they say they intend to protect!

"Phony" polling tactics can also be used to fill voters' heads full of negative information on opposing candidates under the guise of conducting a legitimate non-political research poll or public service.

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