Wednesday, January 16, 2008

MIKE HUCKABEE

Pro-Huckabee Push-Poll Calls in South Carolina

I'm getting multiple reports from Campaign Spot readers in South Carolina of push polls favoring Huckabee.

Here's one account:

My wife just answered a call that appears to be an automated push poll for the Huckster. It started out naming the Republican candidates starting with Huckabee and then asking if she intended to vote in the presidential preference primary. It then went through the candidates, one by one, asking if she would vote for that candidate. When she said "Yes" to Fred, she was asked if she knew that Fred was for this and against that—issues where Fred took the opposite side from Huck (and including the old BS that he lobbied for a company that was pro-abortion.) In each case, the "polls" aim was to make Huck look good and Fred look bad. She hung up before getting to the end and didn't hear who paid for the "poll."

The description of the call sounds like the ones being done by Common Sense Issues — a tax-exempt group registered in Delaware.

01/16 10:31 AMShare