Huckabee push-polling in Virginia!

[Joanne98]

Last night, I received a pro-Mike Huckabee push poll. It was very, very strange. The call was automated and started out saying that it was a short poll, about 3 questions in length and would last only about 45 seconds. It asked a few innocuous questions about whether I planned to vote on Tue. and if I planned to vote for John McCain, Mike Huckabee or someone else. After that is when it got weird and turned into a push poll that was pro-Huckabee and anti-Mitt Romney. The call even mentioned that Romney had dropped out, so why they were still push polling against him is what struck me as very strange.

Fellow Jeffersoniad Coalition bloggers are also reporting having received such calls yesterday. So far, one Virtucon commenter has come forward on this, too:

Just got a pro-Huckabee push poll call in NoVa. Three subjects: immigration, taxes, & life. Then it asked whether I supported Mark Warner or Jim Gilmore. No disclaimer in the call either.

I never got to the end of the call to find out if there was a disclaimer. After having been on the call for several minutes already, I was getting irate and no longer using “Yes” and “No” answers. The call cut off once I started giving answers such as “No way, no how” and “Bite me.” Even then, when the call terminated for that reason, it should have had a disclaimer, but there was not one. Caller ID indicates that the call came from POLDATRES at [phone].

I have my problems with John McCain and I fully intended to go into the voting booth on Tue. and cast my vote for Fred Thompson even though he has dropped out if only to register that he is the one candidate that I agree with on most every issue. However, my disdain for Mike Huckabee grows by the day and this put me over the edge last night. I want to see him crushed on Tue. and never heard from again in the political arena. The man is a charlatan with a traveling show. On Tue., I will vote for John McCain.

Filed under: 2008 Elections, Mike Dukakabee, Morons, Polls

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Fred Tallman, on February 10th, 2008 at 9:18 am Said:
The Huckabee campaign does
not engage in push polling. The Huckabee campaign has real live people call voters homes . If you want to know the source of the push polling perhaps you should look to the democrats or your own candidate. Push polling makes a candidate look really bad and no candidate would engage in this… It really is not fair of you to be angry at Huckabee for these calls, just know that they are done to discredit him not promote him, to turn voters off, just like it did you..Like I said before the Huck campaign uses real live people to make their calls. check out mikehuckabee.com if you are in doubt.

McCain cannot beat the democrats, they will wipe up the floor with him. Only Huckabee with his wit and his experience can pull off a win for the Republicans..

Riley, on February 10th, 2008 at 9:50 am Said:
Oh, yes, I’ll take the word of mikehuckabee.com on this. Isn’t that also the same campaign that attributed “We have nothing to fear, but fear itself” to Winston Churchill? Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.

You are naive if you think that no candidate would engage in this. Even if this call wasn’t paid for by the Huckabee campaign, Huckabee has yet to disavow and condemn similar actions taken on his behalf by outside groups.

The Democrats are too busy beating each other up, plus Howard Dean has already set his sights on John McCain as the GOP nominee. I’d find it hard to believe that any Democrat would waste their time and money on Mike Huckabee to make him look bad at this point. Same thing with John McCain. He has the nomination wrapped up and isn’t about to go after someone like Huckabee and waste his resources there.

Mike Huckabee is a charlatan and a fraud. He is a tax-hiker who supported in-state tuition for illegal aliens as governor. The guy sticks his finger in the wind to see which way it is blowing and then flip flops to what is popular. He is no better than Mitt Romney, who at least had the brains to do his flip flops before the presidential race actually started.

Democrats WISH that we nominated Mike Huckabee. He is a target rich environment and they would have blown him out of the water in a general election. Have you even been looking at any of the general election poll match-ups? McCain beats both Hillary and Obama while Huckabee gets crushed by double digits.

Craig Orndorff, on February 10th, 2008 at 12:01 pm Said:
I got the same push poll. We had gotten a (presumably, as we answered “right” so I don’t know what a Huckabee answer would have done) poll from the McCain campaign earlier in the week.

I listened to the poll all the way to the end just for poops and giggles, and it was sponsored by our good friends at Common Sense Issues, which is run by Colorado Springs-based consultant Patrick Davis. I haven’t done the research to figure out how everything ties together, but I’ll grant Fred his point: Mike is not behind these calls. Just an organizations whose only cause is seemingly getting him in the White House. So no, he doesn’t have anything to do with this.

Sure.
http://virginiavirtucon.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/huckabee-push-polling-in-virginia/

[Midlodemocrat]

1. I got the same call, but I hung up before I heard what they were saying.

I hung up as soon as I heard the name Huckabee.

[Joanne98]

2. So it's true. Good. I hope they eat each other! LOL

[BearSquirrel2]

3. We already are ...

Apparently we already are so they have nothing to worry about.