Thursday, January 17, 2008

Huckabee's Negative Campaign: Push Polling South Carolina

Mike Huckabee is in 2nd place in South Carolina. So why is he push polling (these automated calls are illegal in South Carolina, by the way) against his 4th place rival Fred Thompson? A South Carolina man recorded the poll and looks pretty upset. Here's his video:



At the end of last year Mitt Romney hit this push polling subject dead on. The way these groups have popped up and remain largely unaccountable, is a direct consequence of John McCain's Incumbent Protection Act (sometimes called Campaign Finance "Reform") The subtle irony here is Fred Thompson's was one of the original names on the bill. Here's Romney on the subject:

1 comment:

Big Jay said...

Funny how Huckster played all nice, and then it turns out that the same organization doing the push polls in South Carolina (Huckster supporters) was the organization doing the push polls against Romney in Iowa.

Then Huckster accused Romney of being vicious and dishonest.