Posted on 02/17/2016 12:39:24 PM PST by SoConPubbie
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz is one of the pro-life candidates seeking the GOP nod to take on pro-abortion Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders. Cruz has a long pro-life track record in office and it’s one he says in a new video he will continue as president.
"A candidate that can't be trusted to protect the right to life can't be trusted to protect any of our other God-given rights either. When you look at the voting records of politicians…if they're bad on life, they're always — I repeat always — bad on everything else, too,” Cruz says in the new video.
"As president of the United States, I pledge to you that I will do everything within my power to end the scourge of abortion once and for all. That I will use the full constitutional power and the bully pulpit of the presidency to promote a culture of life,” Cruz continues. “That I will sign any legislation put on my desk to defend the least of these, including legislation that defends the rights of all persons, without exception other than the life of the mother, from conception to natural death. That I will not only defund Planned Parenthood, but I will instruct the Department of Justice to investigate Planned Parenthood and to prosecute any and all criminal conduct which those videos that we saw from the Center for Medical Progress so powerfully evidenced.”
“Everything I just pledged to you should be an automatic requirement for any prospected president who takes an oath of office before an all-powerful God to preserve, protect, and defend our Constitution,” Cruz adds.
Here’s the full video:
A "push poll" is a bogus poll that is used to "push" the person getting the phone call towards voting for a particular candidate. It's not a poll at all, it's manipulative marketing ploy. Push polls, by their very nature, do not result in someone publishing the results.
Example Push Poll:
Push Poll Caller: "Hi, Would you be willing to take a short poll on Immigration to the USA?"
Voter: "Sure"
Push Poll Caller: "Thank you. Marco Rubio says that everyone who has come into the USA illegally from Mexico should be given Amnesty. Do you agree?"
Voter: "Um, no, I don't"
Push Poll Caller: OK. Second quetion: "Jeb Bush said that coming into the USA illegally from Mexico was an Act of Love. Do you believe committing a crime can ever be an act of Love?"
Voter: "No, NO!"
Push Poll Caller: "Ted Cruz has supported fixing America's immigraiton problem by controlling the border, and favors sending illegals back to their country of origin. Do you agree we need a secure border?
Voter: "Yes, I do".
Push Poll Caller: Election Day is tomorrow, are you planning on voting?
Voter: "Yes, I sure am! I'm voting for Ted Cruz!"
Push Poll Caller: "Thanks for taking out poll. Have a nice day".
The polls in the RCP average are all legitimate polls. None are perfect, but history has repeatedly shown that over time, when averaged, they tend to be excellent predictors of actual outcomes.
That's why they are data, and not "your ass", as you so nicely put it.
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That is your misunderstanding.
Push polls are crafted to sway public opinion.
There is really no need to push a respondent toward any position. Using the standard qualifying questions approach, less than useful respondants can be culled without even giving them a clue what has happened.
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Respectfully, you don't know what the hell you are talking about.
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I have worked as a statistician, and it is obvious that you havent.
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100% accurate. This line of thinking will turn off many, regardless of how you or I feel about the topic, this country at large doesn’t see this as the biggest issue.
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