Push Polling

Two residents of Minnesota’s Third Congressional District have given the Minnesota Independent details about calls they got Tuesday evening that they say started as political surveys but ended as push polls against DFL congressional candidate Ashwin Madia.

Do you want your tax dollars paying to educate the children of illegal immigrants?

That was the gist of a question an Edina resident fielded from a telephone poller this weekend. Such push-polling often has little to do with gathering  demographic information, and everything to do with pushing a political agenda.  A report of a such [...]