I have seen a number of Push Poll experience diaries around here, and I've had a couple of recent experiences being polled myself. Instead of simply ignoring it, I'd like to develop a strategy on what we should do about this increasingly frequent happening. They want information from us, but we should be pooling information about these calls for ourselves.

These push polls are a tip of the hand, revealing likely strategies. Knowing such strategies in advance could be useful. Also if some of these bogus polls are later mis-used, we should be able to rip them apart in response.

I guess this is more of a preliminary brainstorming pre-action diary. Please let's get together in the comments to discuss how we can foment a strategy to deal with gathering and sharing the information from these calls. We should also get volunteers to help research the polling "firms".

I just returned from my (Republican) representative's town hall meeting. Happily there was a wide range of people represented there. My representative Cliff Stearns gave a very short powerpoint presentation and then opened the floor to questions. It was not the plug for Bush's SS plan that I thought it might be.

I got the chance to ask him a question. I stated that the SS privatization plans involved borrowing money to allow individuals to invest in the stock market. I asked if it were his own personal finances, would he borrow money to invest in the stock market. He said "No, no I wouldn't." He also told me that I should be a political consultant based on the way I phrased that question.

I am pleased to say that he didn't seem interested in Bush's plan to fix Social Security. He said that Medicare and Medicaid were far more urgent concerns for him. More and poll below the break.