The Republican Jewish Coalition sunk to a new low yesterday when they paid for a poll of Jewish voters in swing states insinuating that Obama supported and has support from radical Palestinian groups including Hamas [1]. The RJC declined to have their name publicly associated with the poll, but media outlets discovered the source nonetheless [2][3]. The RJC used the poll for two purposes — message testing and push polling. They were able to find out what misleading statements worked and spread rumors [4]. It should be noted that Central Marketing Research is not a member of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (at least was not in 2007 [5]) and thus has not abided by the agreement not to engage in misleading and push polling [6]. If McCain is really doing as well as the RJC claims among Jewish voters, it should be a surprise that they would need to sink so low.
September 19, 2008 at 3:42 pm |
Note also the misleading ad campaign they’re running today – “Pat Buchanan agrees with Obama’s positions on Israel.” Oh, well – with the disdain that the Palin/McCain ticket is showing for the truth, it’s unfortunately no surprise that their henchmen aren’t any better.
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