On the push polling posting earlier, here's a follow up post. Looks pretty ugly to me.
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Whodunnit Solved
The Republican Jewish Coalition is taking responsibility for those calls to Jewish voters that asked offensive questions about Barack Obama.
Ben Smith reports:
The Republican Jewish Coalition, which is launching a campaign against Obama on behalf of Senator John McCain, sponsored the poll to "understand why Barack Obama continues to have a problem among Jewish voters," the group's executive director, Matt Brooks, told Politico. ...
"What we did is test, in standard polling methodology, a number of factual issues that have been reported on in the press and are policy positions to see how they're resonating in the Jewish community," said Brooks. "The notion that this is a 'push poll' is offensive to us."
Brooks said the RJC, whose board includes advisors and fundraisers for Senator John McCain, had placed 750 calls to Jewish voters in five states: Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.
As I said earlier today, this didn't look like a push poll, although the campaign the RJC launches based on the questions it's asking may be just as repugnant.
--David Kurtz
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