You still have paid campaign staff posing as "leaning voters" hiding their campaign affiliation from the press.
Since they were leaning towards Romney, that is why they were willing to talk to the media after relating this to their bosses. If they had said they worked for the Romney campaign, rather than honestly admitting that they were “leaning” in that direction—just not stating the full extent of their support as workers for Romney—do you believe that the main stream media would have been at all interested in hearing what they had to say? I doubt it.
What makes us believe that this push polling didn’t happen, just because two Romney sympathizers reported their experience. If an individual who was polled was leaning towards supporting McCain, would we expect them to come out and complain to the media about the way the poll was being conducted, since it was describing McCain in such glowing terms as opposed to what it had to say about Romney? My guess would be probably not.
Yes, this report of push polling might have been much more credible, if it had come from someone undeniably disinterested in either candidate. But my guess would be that only Romney sympathizers of whatever degree would be the ones to be concerned about the direction this push poll was taking.
If it had been an anti-Hillary push poll, i’d expect we’d be hearing from many “disinterested” contacted parties, who would certainly be reported as such in the MSM, rather than admitting any degree of “interest” on their part in seeing Hillary crowned queen.