Worst Push Poll EVER!
"Ring ring," says my phone!
"Hello!" say I.
"Hi, uh, we were wondering if you have a few minutes for a political poll," says the guy stammering on the other end of my line.
Do I ever!
From the first question--are you or anyone in your family employed by a newspaper or a political party?--I knew it was a push poll, and I knew the correct answer to continue would be "no." I am not stupid. I said no.
Did I know who I was voting for for governor? I "wasn't sure." (Hee!) How about in the state Senate race between Lou Correa (Dem) and Lynn Daucher (Rep). Gosh, I wasn't sure about that either! I waited for the questions about if I had known Lou Correa had fathered a black baby out of wedlock, would I be more or less likely to vote for him.
But they never came!
Instead, the push poll was so terribly constructed, I honestly couldn't figure out who they were trying to push.
The first question had THREE SEPARATE CLAUSES--only one of which mentioned "the gay and lesbian agenda." It was impossible to follow. And then I had to check with the guy again. "Um, 'five' in the scale is likely or not likely? And 'one' is . . . ?" Then he wanted to know which of the three had determined my choice. "Um, the eminent domain one?"
The second question asked, "If a candidate, while he was on the School Board, used his position to have his child made valedictorian over another student, would that make you more or less inclined to vote for him?"
"That's horrible!" I shouted. "NOBODY would do that!"
His next question was, "The school board action would be similar to corruption currently going on in Washington."
"That's not even a question," I explained. "Okay. 'Two.'"
Then there were some questions about one candidate being in the Assembly and encouraging Pete Wilson to expand the car tax. Huh?
I finally started laughing and told the guy, "This is the worst push poll EVER."
"I'm not even sure it's a push poll," he said morosely, before telling me, when asked, that he worked for "Pro-Mark Research."
"Oh, of course it is," I told him. But against WHOM???
The gay and lesbian agenda thing should have been a tip-off that it was a push poll against the Dem, but the reason Dems are unexcited about Correa (in fact, we at the Weekly called him "Lou Sheldon's Bitch") is because he's against gay marriage and doesn't have a great voting record on gay issues. Daucher, meanwhile, has a really butch haircut and I've always thought she was a lesbian with no proof whatsoever (besides the haircut).
As for the school board thing, I dont' think Correa was on the school board, but I know Daucher's big thing is education. Also, Correa's kids aren't even out of junior high yet; they went to elementary school with my son back when we lived in the sweet end of Santa Ana.
Third, I ended up spending so much time trying to parse the car tax question--why bring up a GOP governor BY NAME if you're trying to smear a Dem opponent?--and then I ended up trying so hard to figure out if either of them were even IN the assembly under Pete Wilson, that it took all the sting out of whatever that accusation was supposed to be.
So, way to go Pro-Mark Research.
Whichever of your candidates hired you, it was clearly money brilliantly spent.
"Hello!" say I.
"Hi, uh, we were wondering if you have a few minutes for a political poll," says the guy stammering on the other end of my line.
Do I ever!
From the first question--are you or anyone in your family employed by a newspaper or a political party?--I knew it was a push poll, and I knew the correct answer to continue would be "no." I am not stupid. I said no.
Did I know who I was voting for for governor? I "wasn't sure." (Hee!) How about in the state Senate race between Lou Correa (Dem) and Lynn Daucher (Rep). Gosh, I wasn't sure about that either! I waited for the questions about if I had known Lou Correa had fathered a black baby out of wedlock, would I be more or less likely to vote for him.
But they never came!
Instead, the push poll was so terribly constructed, I honestly couldn't figure out who they were trying to push.
The first question had THREE SEPARATE CLAUSES--only one of which mentioned "the gay and lesbian agenda." It was impossible to follow. And then I had to check with the guy again. "Um, 'five' in the scale is likely or not likely? And 'one' is . . . ?" Then he wanted to know which of the three had determined my choice. "Um, the eminent domain one?"
The second question asked, "If a candidate, while he was on the School Board, used his position to have his child made valedictorian over another student, would that make you more or less inclined to vote for him?"
"That's horrible!" I shouted. "NOBODY would do that!"
His next question was, "The school board action would be similar to corruption currently going on in Washington."
"That's not even a question," I explained. "Okay. 'Two.'"
Then there were some questions about one candidate being in the Assembly and encouraging Pete Wilson to expand the car tax. Huh?
I finally started laughing and told the guy, "This is the worst push poll EVER."
"I'm not even sure it's a push poll," he said morosely, before telling me, when asked, that he worked for "Pro-Mark Research."
"Oh, of course it is," I told him. But against WHOM???
The gay and lesbian agenda thing should have been a tip-off that it was a push poll against the Dem, but the reason Dems are unexcited about Correa (in fact, we at the Weekly called him "Lou Sheldon's Bitch") is because he's against gay marriage and doesn't have a great voting record on gay issues. Daucher, meanwhile, has a really butch haircut and I've always thought she was a lesbian with no proof whatsoever (besides the haircut).
As for the school board thing, I dont' think Correa was on the school board, but I know Daucher's big thing is education. Also, Correa's kids aren't even out of junior high yet; they went to elementary school with my son back when we lived in the sweet end of Santa Ana.
Third, I ended up spending so much time trying to parse the car tax question--why bring up a GOP governor BY NAME if you're trying to smear a Dem opponent?--and then I ended up trying so hard to figure out if either of them were even IN the assembly under Pete Wilson, that it took all the sting out of whatever that accusation was supposed to be.
So, way to go Pro-Mark Research.
Whichever of your candidates hired you, it was clearly money brilliantly spent.
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