My-my, my first push poll!
No, it wasn’t by anyone with a D after their name, so everything’s fine...but, it appears a tad nastier on the Republican side.
For some reason, I’m on a McCain telephone list; I say this because for the past few days when I check my machine, I hear old John droning on about something. (God, the man can leave a long message.) I’d tell you what he said, but I’m usually already in the kitchen starting the coffee or in the bathroom by the time he gets around to what he has to say. At any rate, his words are always drowned out by the sound of running water. Today however, I’m playing hooky from work, for the ostensible purpose of studying, but so far, all I’ve done is an hour of WoW and watched 2 Superbowl commercials I missed yesterday. Anyway I’m home today, picking up my calls.
At 10;00, a nice, youngish sounding woman asked if I had time for a poll. Do I?! Oh, boy! I’m being polled! Me! Oh cool, I think: "Now’s my chance to tell Zogby how I’m gonna vote tomorrow!" My heart skipped a beat. Then, that nice, sweet, youngish sounding woman– the one I thought might actually have been interested in what I had to say– let me have it.
"Knowing that Gov. Romney raised taxes by X million dollars while governor of Massachusetts, and that a respected think tank call him ...
I’m not sure what came next, I think she called him the Anti-Christ, but by now, my heart was breaking. Evidently I’m not special. I’m not being polled. My vote will just have to be counted like all the other hoi polloi tomorrow. Damn! And I had visions of me getting a swag bag from the Academy next.
She did salvage the attack by at least coming back to phrase it in the form of a question,
"Would that make you more, or less likely to vote for him?"
My mind was racing. I really should keep her on the line for the next 3 min. to run up Mr. McCain’s campaign expenses, but I figured the marginal cost I’d add would not cover the personal cost of trying to hold my broken heart together long enough to hear the entire spiel. I told here, "I’m sorry, but this isn’t a real poll". She thanked me and hung up.
I have nothing to add. Other than that now, I’m both depressed and not studying, and I’m guessing that McCain’s internal polls are also showing a possible win by Romney in California tomorrow.