7th District Poll Update

Last week, I shared with you poll results a Democratic source shared with me, which allegedly was conducted by the Democratic Party for the benefit of the 7th District U.S. Rep. Andre Carson. The poll showed Carson in a close second behind State Rep. David Orentlicher and only one point ahead of Dr. Woody Myers. State Rep. Carolene Mays trailed in fourth. A respondent of a recent poll, which I believe was probably the same poll, shared the following questions which were asked by the caller. I'll leave it to readers to speculate on who conducted this poll. Here are the questions to the best of the respondent's recollection:

1) Direction of the County – right track/wrong track

2) What issues facing Congress do you think are most important to have addressed on a scale of 1-10? Asked in the following order
a. Schools
b. Medicare
c. Getting the troops out of Iraq
d. Greater protections for 401k and qualified retirement accounts
e. Bringing jobs to Indiana
f. Property tax
g. Home mortgage crisis
h. Price gouging at the pumps
i. Childcare
j. Funding for law enforcement (not sure how this would be addressed at the federal level)
k. Curbing lobbyist interests
l. Terrorism
m. Universal healthcare

3) On a scale of 1-100 with 1 being very cold feelings and 100 being a love fest (my words not there’s) how would you rate the following people.

a. HRC
b. Woody Myers
c. Dr. O
d. Sheriff Frank Anderson
e. Andre
f. Mayes

4) If the election for POTUS was today, for whom would you vote?

5) If the election for 7th was today, for whom would you vote? Then listed Woody, Andre, Carolene and Dr. O.

6) Then the person read a candidate statement for Andre.

a. Build on his grandmother’s legacy
b. There was A LOT of info about Julia in the statement
c. Cited Andre was in law enforcement for 10 years.
d. Lives in Fall Creek Place w/ wife and 1 year old daughter
e. Helping working families


7) Are you more or less likely to vote for Andre based on the statement? I said less likely.


8) Then read a story about Woody Myers.
a. Mostly the text from Woody’s first commercial including the Ryan White line.
b. NYC health commissioner
c. Joined Wellpoint and moved to CA.

9) More or less likely to vote for Woody based on statement?


10) Rate your feelings of Andre’s statements on a scale of 1-10.
a. Julia raised him.
b. He is opposed to Iraq
c. something about middle class property tax relief
d. something about crime

11) I don’t think anyone else tested positives but I was switching phones at the time and didn’t write any of this down.


12) Then the person read negative statements and asked on a scale of 1-10 how influential that would be in your vote.

a. Started with Dr. O
i. Wrote a cloning article about same sex couples having "biological" children
ii. Did not vote on property tax relief although he was sitting at his desk
iii. One other question the respondent couldn't recall

b. Woody
i. Made tons of money working for an insurance company
ii. Used his M.D. experience to make decisions on who would get medical coverage denied.
iii. Lives in a taxpayer subsidized million-dollar condo at the Conrad Hilton.

c. Andre
i. Failed the law enforcement exam using Julia's political pull to get a job.
ii. Andre is Muslim
iii. Others respondents couldn't recall.

13) What is your level of education?

14) What is your family income? Listed categories

15) Race

16) What is your age?

On another note. State Rep. David Orentlicher has launched his first television ad. It uses a bit of humor to help introduce him to voters. You can view it by clicking here. Interestingly, Orentlicher's campaign cancelled a press conference scheduled for this afternoon at which he planned to announce a number of state and local elected officials who were endorsing his campaign. The campaign, instead, released his new TV spot through a press release sent out by e-mail. Adding to today's humor, U.S. Rep. Andre Carson mistakes "switch grass" for "switchblade grass" during a press conference promoting the use of alternative fuels to help in bringing down fuel prices.