Also, the fact that the campaign ignored the push poll query just makes them look guilty, even if they aren't. PR people are all to aware of this, yet in this instance, they chose not to release a short statement decrying their innocence. Why? Having worked as both a writer and senior editor in printed media myself, I can readily attest to the cold shouldered stodginess surrounding those who often have something to hide.

http://www.pollster.com/blogs/proclinton_push_p...

And she’s never been exonerated about having her so-called health care task force operate in secret in direct violation of the law. In fact, that was confirmed.

Of course, she’s never been exonerated about any of the Castle Grande lies and overbillings – or how the missing Rose Law billing records just happened to show up near her office, conveniently, right after the statute of limitations expired. Although Bill claimed she was, she’s never been exonerated for her role in the Whitewater development…but hey, that was only a simple resort scam designed to fleece seniors.

She’s never been exonerated about her role in the disgraceful Travel Office scandal, where nonpartisan career government employees all lost their jobs to make room for her friends, nor for trying to cover it up with a fraudulent IRS audit and criminal charges against Billy Dale – charges which took a jury only minutes to laugh out of court. And of course, the Vince Foster suicide, which had her rummaging through his office while his body was still warm.

How about the FBI files on her political opponents, which were illegally obtained by her chosen aide, Craig Livingstone? How much of that information did she copy? How much does she still have and plan to use? Exonerated? I don’t think so.

As I recall, one of the deputy independent counsels during Whitewater even prepared a draft indictment of her for perjury, which Janet Reno quashed. That’s not exoneration either.

And the Hsu campaign donation “bundling,” which hasn't really been seriously investigated. Her husband was disbarred for perjury, but so far she hasn't had to undergo Grand Jury proceedings for dozens of serious felonious charges.

Does anyone actually think she will be investigated for the push-polling in CA? She knows she's virtually immune from prosecution no matter what crimes she commits in pursuit of political and financial goals.

Also, there are very few instances of a push poll done by a candidate to blame on the other candidate. The RISK is too great. Also, the Clinton camp has turned off a LOT of people (including Democratic bigwigs) due to the kinds of tactics used. There is a pattern here. Ask any political reporter and they will not be able to give you an instances of a candidate who rigged push polling so they could leak a story about push polling to get the publicity to hurt the other side.

Again the risk is TOO GREAT for that. Push polling is believed to WORK. If the Clinton camp wanted the could have denied this immediately.

I worked in the media and when you contact someone over and over and they don't get back to you for a denial..three is usually a reason why. And if they do not get back to you and it's a matter of forgettting or messing up, that person the news outlet contacted needs to be fired or transferred. Stories DO get run on a deadline and the rules of the game are understood by campaigns and p.r. people. Not responding won't stop a story from being run and all it would have taken is a short statement. But the didn't do it.

Also, if the push-poll is done as a set-up of Hillary, by an opponent, I would have done it to minimize any risk to my delegate pool. It would make more sense to do the push-poll in a smaller market where Hillary is clearly ahead. Not only that, but it would have to be done in one of those states with the “winner takes all” delegates. That way if the push-poll didn't pay off, I wouldn't be putting my delegate count at risk (the reason why you would do a sham push-poll in a state where you're already losing). The aim of the sham push-poll would be to create a backlash against Hillary. All that needs to be done is get it in the national news cycle.

No, if this is a push-poll, it would be by Hillary (or her supporters). It wouldn't be by one of her opponents. Not this particular one, anyway. At least that's my take. Subject to change as more facts come out.

I suppose if this gets reported in the broader media (I haven't seen anything else on it), Hillary will deny any knowledge. Funny how her supporters seem to be the most zealous in using dirty tactics…

Quite simple.

Where have all the TMV commentators gone? It used to be that less than 10 – 15 comments was 'light' commenting, and that 40 or 50, or even more, wasn't uncommon.

With each passing week, the number of 0 comment posts, or those with 5 or less, seems to be increasing dramatically.

Thoughts?