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Originally Posted by Slava
I do agree that it was less of a push than what could be expected (by any party), but basically coming right out and giving a party policy word for word as a choice when asking what's important wasn't exactly neutral either. I didn't notice who the firm was conducting the research, which is also strange. I would bet that this was a poll by a party and not an independent firm; any firm would identify that they are calling from "Ipsos Reid" or wherever if they were.
It was interesting that they asked both which leader you would support and which party given those running candidates in your riding though. Maybe it was even an NDP poll with that in mind.
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Push polls generally give very leading questions and draw you to a point of committing to something. For example:
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Which Mayorty candidate do you support:
1) Ric McIvor who always says no.
2) Barb Higgins who read teleprompters.
3) Naheed Nensi who has thought out policy points.
Great you choose Naheed Nenshi. Would you be willing to display a sign for Naheed?
1) For yes,
2) for no.
Thank you... would you like to donate, volunteer, etc......
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From the sounds of the poll mentioned above the issues were in alphabetical order, as were the parties and candidates (based on party). Push polling will put the candidate/party they are pushing closer to the top of the list and/or limit the choices.
Not sure the ND's have money to be polling. The phrasing may sound like WRP policy to you, but it could also be a PC poll doing that on purpose to gauge if there really is support for those issues.
If there was no choice for "other" or "undecided" then I'd say it is more likely was from a party as opposed to an independent firm.