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push poll

noun

Etymology

From push (“to sell or promote”) + poll (“survey”). Also references pull, the opposite of push.

  1. derived from *bew-✻ — “to blow, swell”
  2. derived from *bolno-✻
  3. derived from *poll✻
  4. derived from pol
  5. inherited from pol
  6. compounded as push poll — “push + poll”

Definitions

  1. An opinion poll designed to produce specific results and promote a certain narrative by…

    An opinion poll designed to produce specific results and promote a certain narrative by influencing the views of respondents.

  2. To conduct a push poll or make use of push polls as a campaign or marketing technique.

    • He was push polling, shaping opinion, manipulating as much as measuring.
    • The questions asked by a pollster who is push polling are designed more to implant negative information than to find out how the voter actually feels.
    • First, whenever candidates are upset with the polling strategies of their opponents, they seem to immediately allege that their opponents are push polling, but do not seem to completely understand exactly what a push poll is.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA