I just hung up (well, now it was an hour ago) on a pollster answering questions about the upcoming race for Oregon governor (between former governor John Kitzhaber & Republican ex-NBA player Chris Dudley), which started as a normal polling survey but grew increasingly suspicious as I was asked my opinion about positive qualities of Dudley & negative ones of Kitzhaber. After 15 minutes, I was suspicious of the aim of this poll, asked who was paying for this poll: the researcher did not know. I then told her that unless I knew that, because this sounded like a push-poll I was ending the conversation. She asked me to reconsider & pleaded for me to continue to answer her questions, but I rang off.
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