Got called by a pollster tonight. Always love to try to figure out just who’s polling and for what purpose. Tonight’s was easy.
Some guy from Canada (he even said ‘or-gan-eye-zation) ostensibly polling the Castle/Coons race. Asks me my opinion of certain or-gan-eye-zations first, the D’s, the R’s, and the McGlincheyites.
Then asks me who I support in the race for Senate.
When I answer ‘Coons’, he asks me which of two ballot lines I intend to cast my Coons vote on-the D’s or the Working Families Party. I answer D.
At which point, the Canadian proceeds to read me a two-minute testimonial as to the great works of the Working Families Party. Or, it would have been two minutes (I suspect) had I not cut him off and said that I’m well familiar with the Working Families Party.
He then asks me an asinine question as to whether I support the working class, the middle class, the moneyed class, or the wealthy. I have to pick one.
He then repeats the horse race question and again asks me which line I intend to cast my vote for Coons on.
Now, there’s no harm in this. But I have a question: If the Working Families Party is devoting x number of dollars to the Coons campaign for Senate, shouldn’t they spend it on behalf of Coons, and not spend it on ‘push polls’ to convince people already voting for Coons that they should vote for Coons on the Working Families Party line? How, exactly, does THAT benefit Chris Coons?