"Jewish voters complain of anti-Obama poll"

[orleans]

got this link in an email from mcm

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Jewish_voters_complain_of_antiObama_poll.html

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.

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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.

[still_one]

1. They should trace the call from where it came from, and expose

the bastards

[meowomon]

5. Create Our Own Push Poll

" Did you know that a sermon in Sarah Palin's church Jews for Jesus founder David Brickner described the July Palestinian bulldozer attack against Israeli civilians as part of God's judgment?"

[curious one]

2. GOP group behind negative Obama poll - Politico

link:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13516.html

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A Republican group is taking responsibility for a poll that has roiled the Jewish community by asking sharply negative questions about Senator Barack Obama.

The Republican Jewish Coalition, which is launching a campaign against Obama on behalf of Senator John McCain, sponsored the poll to "understand why Barack Obama continues to have a problem among Jewish voters," the group's executive director, Matt Brooks, told Politico.

The poll asked voters their response to negative statements about Obama, including reported praise for him from a leader of the Palestinian terror group Hamas and a friendship early in his career with a pro-Palestinian university professor. Some Jewish Democrats who received the poll – including a New Republic writer who lives in Michigan – were outraged by the poll, describing it in interviews as "ugly" and disturbing. A group that supports Obama, the Jewish Council for Education and Research even staged a protest outside the Manhattan call center from which the calls originated Tuesday.

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[eshfemme]

3. At least the Jewish voters were smart enough to identify the push polling for what it was

and complained about it. Push polling is far more insidious on those who can't even identify it as such and then continue on with false impressions that they're not even aware of.

Seriously, I wish polling itself would be reformed because crap like this should not be allowed to happen year after year after year.

[C_U_L8R]

4. Republicans think they can manipulate people with impunity

They will find out soon how much people resent being deceived

[Joe Chi Minh]

6. They picked the wrong people to try and fool.

[orleans]

7. apparently they picked the wrong people. one of the women said she

was furious. glad they recognized what the poll was *really* all about and brought it to someone's attention