McCain Push-Polls Jewish Voters In Florida

[Elfdart]

Politico via Huffington Post

Jewish voters complain of anti-Obama poll

Jewish voters are complaining of a poll that, after confirming their religion, asks a series of questions that appear aimed at alarming Jewish voters, including linking Barack Obama to Palestinian terrorist groups.

Debbie Minden of Pittsburgh described receiving the call from "Research Strategies" late yesterday afternoon. And a Key West woman, Joelna Marcus, reportedly received a similar-sounding call from the same group, according reports from the Obama-backing organization JewsVote.org and from a local blog.

Minden, a psychologist who lives in the Jewish neighborhood of Squirrel Hill, said the poll -- which came from an identified number -- began with relatively inocuous questions about what organizations she belongs to, whether she prefers CNN or Fox News, and how Obama and McCain compare on a range of issues, from national security to hte economy to education.

The caller also asked whether she was Jewish.

"It sounded like a real poll," Minden, 56, asaid.

Then the caller asked, as she recalled: "Would it change your mind about Obama if you knew that his church was anti-Israel? Would it change you rmind if you knew that the leaders Hamas had endorsed Obama? Would it change your mind if you knew he had met with the leaders of Hamas?"

She also said one question asked whether it would change her mind if she learned he were a Muslim, though she didn't recall the precise wording.

The poll lasted about 15 minutes, she said.

Marcus gave a similar account to JewsVote's Mik Moore, who wrote in an email that Marcus was asked if her opinion of Barack Obama would change if she knew that he had given money to the Palestinian Liberation Organization.

Marcus couldn't immediately be reached. If you've gotten a similar poll, or know someone who has, please get in touch.

Just when you think they've scraped the bottom of the barrel, they start scraping under it.

[Darth Wong]

That's exactly what Rove did to McCain in 2000, with the "black baby" push poll. As I said before, people always thought he was offended by those tactics, but I think we can now safely say that he was only offended by the fact that he didn't think of it first.

[Ender]

Dude, you had Karl fucking Rove calling the McCain camp liars and talking about them going too far past the truth. When scum like that is saying you are in the wrong, you are way over the god damed line.

Guess I'll spend tomorrow trying to convince more of these slack jawed do nothings to register t vote as well.