push pollとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From push ‎(“to sell または promote”) +‎ poll ‎(“survey”). Also references pull, the opposite of push.

別の表記

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名詞

push poll ‎(複数形 push polls)

1. An opinion poll designed to produce specific results and promote a certain narrative by influencing the views of respondents.

   The local paper has just released the results of what can only be described as a push poll. The pollsters fed numerous cherry-picked data points and statistics to respondents before asking their opinions on newly proposed government policies. There can be no doubt that the results would have been different had those interviewed not been led to the conclusions the pollsters wanted.

動詞

push poll ‎(三人称単数 現在形 push polls, 現在分詞 push polling, 過去形および過去分詞形 push polled)

1. To conduct a push poll or make use of push polls as a campaign or marketing technique.
   • 2003, Chris Benson, Special Interest, ISBN 0345457277, page 15:

     He was push polling, shaping opinion, manipulating as much as measuring.

   • 2006, Deborah Phillips, Longman preparation course for the TOEFL test, ISBN 013193290X, page 578:

     The questions asked by a pollster who is push polling are designed more to implant negative information than to find out how the voter actually feels.

   • 2012, Michael A. Genovese & ‎Matthew J. Streb, Polls and Politics: The Dilemmas of Democracy, ISBN 0791485099, page 105:

     First, whenever candidates are upset with the polling strategies of their opponents, they seem to immediately allege that their opponents are push polling, but do not seem to completely understand exactly what a push poll is.

動詞

push-poll ‎(三人称単数 現在形 push-polls, 現在分詞 push-polling, 過去形および過去分詞形 push-polled)

1. Alternative form of push poll
   • 2000, New York - Volume 33, Issues 5-12:

     Are Hillary's consultants trying to push-poll New Yorkers around?

   • 2009, David Mark, Going Dirty: The Art of Negative Campaigning, ISBN 0742599825, page 206:

     Dick Bennett of the American Research Group pollsters told Vanity Fair that his callers constantly encountered people who had just been push-polled.

   • 2013, Daniel M. Shea & ‎Brian M. Harward, Presidential Campaigns: Documents Decoded, ISBN 1610691938, page 209:

     Soon afterward, voters reported being push-polled.