Bray poll
From email tipster:
The poll was last Wednesday or Thursday night. F&A public opinion was the announced polling company. This summary paraphrases the questions from my written notes made during the telephone poll.
They asked for the oldest male registered voter in the house (me.)
1) Did you vote in 2004 Democratic Primary?
2) Will you vote in Democratic Primary this year? (Not "how likely," but "will
you")
3) Is MO heading on the Right Direction/Wrong Track?
4) What is the most important issue to you?
5) Have you ever heard of:
-Kelly Burkett
-Jake Zimmerman
-Joan Bray
-Michael Corcoran
-Margaret Donnelly
-Missy Waldman
-Ben Yucatelli
-Jim Foley
-Sam Page
6) Rank Claire McCaskill's job performance (favorable scale)
7) Rank Joan Bray's job performance (favorable scale)
8) Rank job performance of State Senate as a whole (favorable scale)
9) Who would you vote for in the following matchups?
-Bray/Page
-Bray/Corcoran
-Bray/Foley
-Donnelly/Bray
10) List whether favorable/unfavorable impressions of Joan Bray.
11) Agree/Disagree (sliding scale) with the following:
-oppose death penalty
-should be constitutional amendment for marriage b/w man & woman
-Abortion (Always, Rape/Incest/life in Danger, Always Illegal)
-Gov't funding of abortion
-Prohibit all late-term abortion
-Minors need parental consent for abortion
-Joan Bray is too liberal
-I'd vote against Joan Bray
-I'd vote against abortion
-Joan Bray cares about people like you
-Need new leadership
-Need new Democrat leadership
12)Would you rather vote for someone who a) fights republicans or b) makes
non-partisan progress
13)Would you rather vote for someone who has experience in government or was new and ineffective
14) sliding scale liberal-conservative
15) sliding scale dem-repub
16) are you protestant, catholic, jew, other
17) are you hispanic
18) are you white
What's the deal? Are there rumors that Bray may face a primary challenge from State Reps Page, Corcoran, Foley or Donnelly?
Question 13 has the feel of a "push poll," but it's pretty early for that.
Posted by St Louis Oracle on Thu., Feb 23, 2006 at 10:33 AMVery strange and one sided polling questions...i agree with you Oracle on #13. Take a lok at #12
"would you rather vote for someone who a) fights Republicans or b) makes non-partisan progress." That's a loaded question, what about somebody who fights Democrats. I bet the results of that one are a)17% b)82%
I am pretty baffled be the line of questions in this poll, I am really not sure what it accomplishes for Joan. This might be some type of GOP poll collecting demographic info on the district, which, far-fetched, seems like a the most plausible explaination for the strange nature of the questions. If not I really don't know why the Senator would spend $10-20K on loaded questions, and people that won't run against her?
Posted by The Southsider on Fri., Feb 24, 2006 at 7:37 AMThis poll has Sam Page's name all over it. It's so obvious! Everyone knows he does a poll any time he is even thinking about taking a position on something.
Posted by Lynn on Fri., Feb 24, 2006 at 7:40 PM
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