push-polling
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See also: push polling
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]push-polling
- present participle and gerund of push-poll
Noun
[edit]- Alternative form of push polling
- 1999, United States Congress House Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations, Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government, page 36:
- This is the business of push-polling, a deceptive practice purporting to be a poll but actually designed to influence opinion.
- 2004, Steven Hill, Fixing Elections, →ISBN, page 159:
- Push-polling hones in on an opponent's record, strip-mining it and often distorting or exaggerating it.
- 2015, Dennis W. Johnson, Political Consultants and American Elections, →ISBN:
- One telemarketing application that has received considerable criticism in the past several election cycles is push-polling.