I knew I shouldn't have bothered taking that call, but I thought it might be my wife, so. . .beware of Pro Market Research.
Well, I just had a few minutes of my life wasted by an outfit that, I believe, was called Pro Market Research. When I answered the phone and realized it was a poll, I thought, "Well, I'm happy to do what I can to represent what I think of as the Democratic wing of the Democratic party." It was all going pretty normally until the woman polling me asked whether I had had my view of Joe Sestak negatively affected by a recent ad alleging something or other.
I interrupted her then, saying that this was sounding suspiciously like a push-poll and then asked : "Will I be getting similar questions about Pat Toomey or Corbett?" (I was also asked about the governor's race.) I also asked whether her firm was in the employ of any of the campaign or a political party. No, she said, and she assured me questions about ol'Club for Growth and Hamface would indeed be coming. Then, after asking another loaded question about Sestak, she asked me for identifying information. At that point, I got really annoyed and asked: "But now it sounds like you're wrapping up the call. Where are the questions about Toomey and Corbett?" "I'll get back to those, sir." And then, when I verified my initials, the line went dead. Of course, *69 didn't work.
So if you are contacted by these hacks, you can decide whether you want to participate. Just wanted to give fellow Kossacks the heads-up.
And let's keep working! The narrative is shifting a bit from Rethuglican Tidal Wave to something a little less catastrophic. . .
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