| The bluecollardaughter household was on the receiving end of the mother of all telephone push polls tonight. Actually, it was more of a sledgehammer or cudgel or bludgeon poll. The pollster started off with typical questions, such as how I felt certain MN elected officials were doing (ranking), but quickly moved into the following questions which I can only describe as "janky business" (it's late, we're just celebrating my husband's birthday, and my vocabulary is slimmer than usual):
--If you knew that Mark Dayton had fired an employee while he had a heart condition, and the employee sued him, and the case went all the way to the Supreme Court, would that affect how you feel about Dayton as a candidate?
--Mark Dayton gave himself an "F" for failure for his performance as a senator--does that affect how you feel about him as a candidate?
--Mark Dayton has said if elected he will raise taxes on the rich and on the middle class. That would mean he would raise taxes on a couple that were for example a police officer and a schoolteacher. Does that effect how you feel about him as a candidate?
My answer was "this would not affect my opinion" to all of these (cause ain't no skeevy phone poll going to), then I stopped the pollster and told her I don't participate in push polls. When I then asked the pollster who was sponsoring the poll, the woman would not give information due to "confidentiality."
Zing! I love technology. My caller ID read "opinion poll" at a Las Vega, Nevada number. A return call reached "McGuire Research" and reverse phone look-up at dexonline.com showed MCGUIRE RESEARCH Services LLC, Address: 5818 SPRING MOUNTAIN RD, LAS VEGAS, NV 89146-8711. A short time later, another pollster from the McGuire firm called back to "verify" I had been polled. She did not give her name, but the phone number of the call was from the same firm in Vegas. When I again asked who was the sponsor of the poll, I was told "no one knows that because it would influence how we ask the questions."
Guess we'll see what the MN Campaign Finance Board has to say... |
