On Push Polling

The always insightful and funny Gun Toting Liberal has a great piece on recent complaints of the McCain campaign engaging in push polling in battleground states. I'm personally in shock that Mr. Straight-Talking Integrity and Honor would allow his campaign to engage in the very tactic Bush used to smear him during the 2000 Republican primaries.

A tongue-in-cheek example of such push polling from GTL:

“If you knew Barack Obama was involved in the murder of O.J. Simpson’s wife and the Las Vegas kidnapping/robbery scheme, would you still vote for him"

I've heard rumors from completely unreliable sources that the following questions are also being asked in push polls throughout purple America:

"If you knew Barack Obama was a direct descendant of Pontius Pilate, the executioner of our Lord, would you be less likely to cast a vote for him?"

"If you learned that Barack Obama hates NASCAR, listens to the Fugees, and is a vegetarian would you be less likely to vote for him?"

"Would you be less likely to vote for Barack Obama if you learned that he thinks Carrot Top is funny and, in a previous life, caused dinosaurs to become extinct?"

For me the answer is clearly "yes", "yes", and "absolutely".