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To: MtnClimber

“polls that confirm my own preferences. All the others are enemy psyops.”

Well said. Properly run polls can be invaluable to candidates seeking info on how to package their message.

I have conducted polls where I ask the same question of government policy in several different ways. On foreign policy, on life/abortion, on taxes and economic freedom I can get widely different results based on how the question is worded....and very importantly how the 2 or 3 questions prior to the “REAL” question set up the context for the real question.

A current example: GA R candidate for Senate Collins talks about “cost”. D Ossoff talks about “price”. In the context of their ads they are the same thing. But the D ad is communicates with the voter much more than the Republican ad due to the choice of this one word.


38 posted on 08/31/2026 12:37:08 PM PDT by spintreebob
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To: spintreebob

Interesting. I can see the Dims pay much more attention to the words they use and the names things are called.


40 posted on 08/31/2026 12:47:23 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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