push polling
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.79 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Allegations of push polling have become increasingly common during recent election campaigns for all levels of public office in the United States, including the presidency, Congress, state legislatures, and state initiative campaigns."
- "Push polling is so antithetical to legitimate polling that in 1996 the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), the American Association of Political Consultants (AAPC), and the National Council on Public Polls (NCPP) issued a joint statement condemning the practice."
- "As a final example, the 2009 campaign to reelect Michael Bloomberg as mayor of New York City was accused of conducting push polling against a potential Bloomberg opponent, U.S. representative Anthony Weiner (Hernandez 2009)."
- "Push polling has extended beyond the boundaries of the United States, although one Toronto Sun article referred to push polling as "a controversial U.S. style campaign tactic.""