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Smerconish: Lie to Pollsters to Help Libertarian Ticket
NewsBusters ^ | September 11, 2016 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 09/11/2016 6:35:57 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

Michael Smerconish wants to help the Libertarian presidential ticket of Gary Johnson and William Weld participate in the presidential (and vice-presidential) debates. The big problem is that the Libertarians must show they have reached a level of 15% support in an average of five national polls and they aren't there yet. Therefore Michael Smerconish has an idea for his viewers: lie like hell. I kid you not.

Smerconish made this unique suggestion on his CNN show on Saturday. His idea is that if a pollster contacts you that you should lie and tell him that you support Gary Johnson for president even if you don't. The whole purpose would be to get the Libertarian ticket level of support to 15% to get them into the presidentials debates. Here is Smerconish recommending that you lie to pollsters:

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: garyjohnson; libertarians; michaelsmerconish
So it's okay to lie to Smerconish when he wants to poll us?
1 posted on 09/11/2016 6:35:57 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix

The internals show Johnson taking more from Hilliary than Trump, which is why the MSM torpedoed him this week on the Aleppo slam.


2 posted on 09/11/2016 6:38:51 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (FUMSM)
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To: PJ-Comix

Gary Johnson is a liberal.

Any conservative who votes for him wants a kinder and gentler Hillary Clinton.

Which about sums him up.


3 posted on 09/11/2016 6:39:02 PM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: PJ-Comix

What’s a Smerconish?


4 posted on 09/11/2016 6:39:41 PM PDT by Rodm
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To: PJ-Comix

I don’t want him on the ballot. People have enough trouble figuring out what to do when it’s voting time. Doesn’t there have to be some threshold to get on ballots? I mean the ballots would be jammed otherwise.


5 posted on 09/11/2016 6:43:56 PM PDT by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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To: PJ-Comix

Some kind of perverted morality displayed by this lowlife - lie to pollsters, eh?


6 posted on 09/11/2016 6:45:34 PM PDT by CreviceTool (A Good Samaritan with a handgun saved my life...)
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To: Let's Roll
Read this.
7 posted on 09/11/2016 6:46:55 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: Rodm

It’s like a pierogi isn’t it?


8 posted on 09/11/2016 6:49:41 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: goldstategop

William Weld is a RINO. And has been known to be unfortunate enough to get a bad ice cube more often than not.


9 posted on 09/11/2016 6:53:57 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: PJ-Comix
OH shut up Smerconish.
10 posted on 09/11/2016 7:00:08 PM PDT by Fido969 (Maybe I';ve been posting for the last 10 years, and rather than spew cr@p you could look up my posts)
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To: Rodm

11 posted on 09/11/2016 7:02:20 PM PDT by Fido969 (Maybe I';ve been posting for the last 10 years, and rather than spew cr@p you could look up my posts)
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To: PJ-Comix

Coming up soon. A chance to make Johnson faint and then replace him with a real candidate.


12 posted on 09/11/2016 7:03:41 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Rodm
"What’s a Smerconish?"

It's when you have a healthy constitutional in the morning and you pull the lever and a little olive-like sphere is the only thing survives the initial flush.

That's a Smerconish.

(Also a real estate agent in the northeastern Philadelphia area-Mrs. Smerconish).

13 posted on 09/11/2016 7:04:11 PM PDT by SnuffaBolshevik
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I actually responded to a poll last week rather than just hanging up as is normal.

The only lie I told the pollster was about my race. I self identified as an elderly black male supporting Trump.

14 posted on 09/11/2016 7:12:17 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Jus Soli + Jus Sanguinis = NBC)
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To: PJ-Comix

yet another reason why stupid LOSERTARIANS always come off as complete idiots; they are.


15 posted on 09/11/2016 7:12:22 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: SnuffaBolshevik

LOL!!!!!!


16 posted on 09/11/2016 7:22:15 PM PDT by patro (Phrogs Forever)
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Smerconish is a fraud.


17 posted on 09/11/2016 7:38:16 PM PDT by TakebackGOP
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To: PJ-Comix

Sterling character Micheal, and without payment to boot. You come very cheap.


18 posted on 09/11/2016 11:01:41 PM PDT by chit*chat
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To: goldstategop

“Any conservative who votes for him wants a kinder and gentler Hillary Clinton.”

With a bigger nose from “hoovering” drugs!


19 posted on 09/12/2016 12:57:08 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: PJ-Comix

I always lie to pollster because they are dishonest.


20 posted on 09/12/2016 1:40:10 AM PDT by AdaGray
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