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I received a call this evening from a upstanding young man who wanted to ask me a few questions about my political views.
"This will only take a second."
Questions were generic and, to my mind, useless:
"What is the most important issue in this election."
"What party are you closest to?"
"Don't you just wish the Earth would shut up and die already?"
At the end of the surprisingly short set of three questions, as he was trying to get rid of me, I asked, "So, what's the deal with these questions, where are they going? What are you working on?"
"Oh, actually, I am with the Ron Paul campaign. We are using these questions to find people that might have similar views to our candidate. Then we can pull them into the flock and ban together against stuff like the National Endowment for the Arts, stem cell research, and, you know, the Earth."
I might have made that last sentence up.
Is it common for campaigns to ask a lot of questions under the pretext of a survey without explaining why? It was just all weird and deceptive. The fact that his response started with "Oh, actually..." made me bristle, as if he was copping to the lie. And only told me what he was doing because I came out and called him on it.
