Push Polls

question 66

Multiple Choice

Push polls

• A) have been determined to be illegal in twenty-three states.
• B) are always conducted face to face rather than by telephone.
• C) are so controversial that very few candidates have chosen to use them.
• D) were used widely in the 1960s and 1970s, but when they became associated with the dirty politics of those eras, they were disregarded by most candidates.
• E) are now used throughout all levels of U.S. politics-local, state, and federal.

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