Question
Answer some questions about supposed instances of push polling in US politics, for 10 points each.
[10m] This man’s 2000 presidential campaign was allegedly damaged by polls implying he’d “fathered an illegitimate Black child.” Russ Feingold co-sponsored a 2002 campaign finance bill with this Arizona senator.
ANSWER: John McCain [or John Sidney McCain III]
[10h] Karl Rove allegedly created a plot for callers to ask voters whether they would still vote for this woman if they knew lesbians dominated her staff. This woman lost the 1994 Texas gubernatorial race to George W. Bush.
ANSWER: Ann Richards [or Ann Willis or Dorothy Ann Richards or Dorothy Ann Willis]
[10e] Larry Sabato identified this future president as a pioneer of push-polling for alleged phone calls calling his opponent Jerry Voorhis a communist in a 1946 election. This president resigned after the Watergate scandal.
ANSWER: Richard Nixon [or Richard Milhous Nixon]
<History - American History>
Summary
| 2023 ACF Fall (Rutgers) | 10/14/2023 | Y | 7 | 21.43 | 100% | 86% | 29% |
Data
| NYU A | Columbia B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Lehigh | NYU B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Maryland | Rutgers | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Swarthmore A | NYU C | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Princeton | University of Delaware B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Fordham | Rowan | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| University of Delaware A | Swarthmore B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |