What jk has done in his thread about bobcat being an admin is a push poll. It works like this: you're given two choices. One says something good about the first choice, the other says something bad about the second. This causes people to react with favor towards the first. The way it works, is that it pushes people to one point of view.
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Perhaps the most famous alleged use of push polls is in the 2000 United States Republican Party primaries, when it was alleged that George W. Bush's campaign used push polling to torpedo the campaign of Senator John McCain. Voters in South Carolina reportedly were asked "Would you be more likely or less likely to vote for John McCain for president if you knew he had fathered an illegitimate black child?", an allegation that had no substance, but planted the idea of undisclosed allegations in the minds of thousands of primary voters[1]. McCain and his wife had in fact adopted a Bangladeshi girl.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_poll
27 Jul 2007, 11:17 pm
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