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August 14, 2010
A push poll in the state Senate race, perhaps from the Pollard camp
Atlantic Yards Report
If you wanted to know anything about any kind of a poll was being conducted around the primary race for the State Senate between incumbent Velmanette Montgomery and challenger Mark Pollard, the best person to receive the call would be Norman Oder.
The call was probably linked to the Pollard camp, since a Montgomery representative said it wasn't them. (Update: Maybe that was too conclusory. It could've come from a group supporting Montgomery.)
The caller said she was a representative of a public opinion research firm called M.E.M. "We're conducting a brief survey about important issues in your area," I was told.
I asked for the location of the firm and a web site. There's no web site, I was told, and "I'm just in a call center." (She couldn't pronounce "Gowanus," so she was clearly from way out of town.) So I took a few notes.
Atlantic Yards makes an appearance in a poll question.
The next two questions concerned what is apparently the principal issue--or at least the principal campaign issue, given Pollard's funding by charter school supporters:
- What do I think of the United Federation of Teachers
- What do I think of charter schools?
The next question concerned what is apparently a significant secondary issue:
- What are my feelings about Atlantic Yards?
Posted by steve at August 14, 2010 2:23 PM