Via Ace of Spades, it seems someone out there seems to be spreading The Message in a less than forthright fashion.
Then the weirdness started. The pollster said the next set of questions was to determine whether I found a set of arguments convincing on a scale of zero to ten, zero being not at all convincing and ten being totally convincing. The first statement was 'John McCain voted 24 times against voting the minimum wage while Barack Obama voted for the wage and to protect American workers.' I answered zero, and figured an anti-Obama statement would be coming next.
Nope. The next question had to do with health care, and said that John McCain voted to spend money on providing tax cuts for the rich while Barack Obama wanted to use the money to provide health care for orphaned children or something. I answered zero again.
I had my own solution to this the other night. A company - let's call them Technical Political Analysis, Inc. - called and wanted me for an opinion survey.
"Fine," I said, "glad to help. As soon as you tell me who hired TPA."
"I don't know what you mean."
"Well, I'm sure it wasn't TPA's idea to call me. Someone hired you to get the information so that they can use it. I'll be happy to talk to you, as soon as you tell me who."
The conversation ended abruptly when the pollster hung up the phone. I guess I won't be represented in their survey. Judging by the comments at Slublog others have found this effective.
