http://bloombergwatch.com/index.php/09/bloomberg-research-firm-pretends-to-be-independent/ Above the rules? Above the People?! Fri, 18 May 2012 03:33:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://bloombergwatch.com/index.php/09/bloomberg-research-firm-pretends-to-be-independent/comment-page-1/#comment-1001 Louis F. Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:27:30 +0000 http://bloombergwatch.com/?p=2039#comment-1001 What a surprise ! A polling company that is misrepresenting itself as an "independent organization" is calling NYC voters to influence their views under the guise of conducting a poll ? Pollsters are instead "pushing" Bloomberg for mayor. Push polling has been condemned by the American Association of Political Consultants and is illegal in New Hampshire. What a surprise ! A polling company that is misrepresenting itself as an “independent organization” is calling NYC voters to influence their views under the guise of conducting a poll ? Pollsters are instead “pushing” Bloomberg for mayor. Push polling has been condemned by the American Association of Political Consultants and is illegal in New Hampshire.

]]> http://bloombergwatch.com/index.php/09/bloomberg-research-firm-pretends-to-be-independent/comment-page-1/#comment-966 neil fabricant Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:59:23 +0000 http://bloombergwatch.com/?p=2039#comment-966 Our readers probably know that is the flip side of a tactic known as push polling wherein the caller says scurrilous things about an opponent in the guise of an independent survey. "If you knew that John McCain had fathered a black child....etc " was the question Bush operatives asked in the south Carolina primary (maybe it was North Carolina, I forget). Brooklyn congressman Anthony Weiner has charged that the Bloomberg's operatives did it to him before he even announced that he would run. He didn't. Our readers probably know that is the flip side of a tactic known as push polling wherein the caller says scurrilous things about an opponent in the guise of an independent survey. “If you knew that John McCain had fathered a black child….etc ” was the question Bush operatives asked in the south Carolina primary (maybe it was North Carolina, I forget). Brooklyn congressman Anthony Weiner has charged that the Bloomberg’s operatives did it to him before he even announced that he would run. He didn’t.

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