I think I've been push polled.........

[BJ]

Much has been made of Congressman Dick Gephardt's front-runner status in recent Iowa Polls conducted by The Des Moines Register. I subscribe to The Des Moines Register and am a registered Democrat but I've never been called by The Register's Iowa Poll. I went to my first caucus in'76 at a neighbor's house, there were six or seven of us and missed being voted as precinct representative to the county convention by one vote(the fellow who cast the deciding vote confided to me that he wanted to vote for me but his mom wanted to be pricent rep too and since he still lived at home...)

Anyway, I digress.

Just before all this hoopla about Gephardt leading in Iowa I was called not once but twice by the same polling organization. I was read a list of statements about four, and only four, of the Democratic candidates: Dean, Kerry, Edwards and Gephardt. Then I was asked after each statement whether or not I thought whose position it best reflected. I remember it was a long and deeply involved poll and at times a little confusing and repetitious. Yet after all the time this poll took I still did not yeild the desired results: I remain stedfastly committed to Congressman Dennis Kucinich.

Just this even I received a telephone call from a young lady identifying herself with a polling organization. I could tell that she was not a local phone-bank volunteer but a for-pay telemarketer.
She asked if I was planning to attend the up-coming Iowa Caucus. I said I was. She asked if I strongly supported any of the candidate and when I said "Kucinich" she hung up.

I don't know what to think of this. Maybe I'm looking for something that's not there. But there seems to be something a little hinky with these polling calls I've received. I'm probably reading too much into it and being a little too paranoid. But I am puzzled.

Oh, well, it's probably innocent. I just wanted to pass my experience along. It's Monday Night Football time.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

1. The first one,

if you couldn't tell who they were push-polling for or against, probably doesn't qualify. They are usually pretty obvious - that's the point, to push you into a position.

The second one, well, if they were trying to poll uncommitted voters, you wouldn't qualify, for example. Still abruptly hanging up is rude.