Zogby Engages in Apparent Push Polling for Right-Wing Website

The conservative website HowObamaGotElected.com reports that it has commissioned Zogby International to conduct a poll of 512 Barack Obama voters as part of what can best be described as a viral marketing effort to discredit the intelligence of Obama supporters. Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
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by Dwight Rousu - Nov. 20, 2008

If ethically challenged push-polling is presented as news on right-biased major media as alleged here, the public needs to know what they are being fed.

The story speaks to the degree the radical right republicans are looking to be bipartisan and cooperatively work on the nation's problems. It also speaks to the potential naivete of Obama's openness to including Republicans.

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Randy Morrow
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by Randy Morrow - Nov. 20, 2008

The election is over but the slime continues (or really may be just beginning) as pointed out here by pollster Nate Silver in his analysis of a new "push poll" put together by an admitted republican supporter/democratic detractor.

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