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Many of us argue if they hate political polls. It’s not Erin Breen.
“I want to convey my opinion on things to people,” said Breen, a resident of Greenfield, laughed. “When I saw a poll on what I was interested in, I said,” Why didn’t anyone ask me? ” “
Two weeks ago, she clicked on the link, “Can you share your thoughts in this three -minute pittsburg survey?!” It may have given her a preview of a kind of attack to hear immediately in Pittsburg’s mayor competition.
In fact, Breen suspects that public poll itself was such an attack.
BREEN, and other people who have participated in online or telephone surveys this month, say that early questions are harmless. Is Pittsburg on the correct track? What are the most important issues for you? If you have to vote today, will you repay the Corie Okonor, Mayor Ed Gainy or his controller, the county of the county?
But then the question changes.
“Ed Gainy supports our prison to the road and releases violent criminals,” says one question. “He even supported 36 % of tax raising to provide funds to lawyer fees to help out of prison.”
I don’t know what this question is. There was an effort to provide legal assistance to the poor facing the eviction, but it is not exactly the same. And Gainy has not proposed a 36 % increase in tax duty to pay or for other things. (However, 36 % are increasing the property tax rate in the county.)
In any case, Breen is a stubborn gain supporter. In the survey, we asked if such a claim changed her support, but what they did was to offend her.
“He wouldn’t have the power to release people from prison anyway, and it felt straight from Trump’s mouth. This is strange for the Democratic Party’s preliminary election,” she said. The question she was worried about was played by the old racist ES. “I, the first mayor (with Gainy), I feel that people will not see everything he is doing.”
“If someone wants to vote for the real problem in this race, they should ask about my comprehensive proposals to reduce all the housing costs in all the local area passed this week,” said Gainy and was affordable. He mentioned his bidding to establish a price -a housing requirement for the whole city. “About $ 600 million to revitalize downtown” or “Efforts to contribute to our taxes as much as nurses and firefighters as nurses and firefighters.” Pittsberg is too wise. It is too wise to make a mistake in touching the touch with the solution to the problem. “
The voting sponsor was not identified. This is typical for the reason to enter soon. But Brine assumed that the investigation was placed by Okonor or someone who was trying to help him.
Oconor refused the speculation.
“I want to carry out a clean campaign to talk about the problem,” he told me.
Okonor says he has seen a poll that targets him. It is said that his father, especially his late mayor Bob Okonor, is accused of using the late Bob Oconor, not as “successful and effective city leaders.” Before becoming an administrator of Aregeny County in 2022, Okoner himself worked for the city council for 10 years.
Such messaging often comes from external expenditures, not the campaign itself. However, I could not identify the organization related to this, even though I reached out to a few people who seemed to be a suspect. (I confessed that I was wondering how the attack line was executed.)
No matter who is responsible, such an attack can return the boomerang to those who want to help if they are blamed the ugly tactics used on behalf of them. And the candidates are not directly telling the external group what to do, but such a group reading this says, “I don’t know why they are doing it, but what is it? Campaign that does not matter.
Surveys that are false or misleading are often called “push pole”. They may seem like an effort to measure public opinion, but it’s an attempt to actually form it. It is also possible to measure what negative messages work when the actual attack ad is started.
“All campaigns want to know which attacks will stick,” says Adam Bonin, a Filadelphia -based election lawyer.
In any case, the worsening of voting is the fact that, for example, that, for example, a mailer or television advertisement, it is not necessary to disclose who paid for the survey.
That’s because the nominal purpose of the polls is to reflect the emotions of voters and not. It’s not like a campaign communication that requires disclosure. (Still, the lawyer Chuck Pascal in the local election told me, “That’s an interesting question. Is there any point in which voting is designed to affect someone’s voting?”)
The campaign itself has not yet crossed the sword yet. Okoner shakes when he started the campaign. But that was what the challenger did, and Gainy provided a reaction more than a FRAY type.
In addition, the campaign may be engaged in the “red box”, but a half -hidden web page suggests an attack to borrow, but signs from Gainey and O’connor on the campaign’s web page. Can be seen. 。
So what can we do to keep this campaign from ending in the groove before it actually begins? The two candidates will confront Sunday in the forum hosted by the 14th Ward Independent Democratic Club. Maybe candidates ask what role the external group should play?
Do you know what I did there? I asked a question designed to plant ideas in someone else’s heart. Check if it works.
