Editing Push poll (section)

== Origin ==
[[Richard Nixon]] pioneered push polling. In his very first campaign, a 1946 run for the U.S. House against incumbent [[Jerry Voorhis]], voters throughout the district reported receiving telephone calls that began: "This is a friend of yours, but I can't tell you who I am. Did you know that Jerry Voorhis is a communist?" (Voorhis was not)—at which point the caller hung up. A citizen reported that she worked for the Nixon campaign for $9 (${{formatnum:{{inflation|US|9|1946|r=-2}}}} in {{inflation-year|US}}{{inflation-fn|US}}) a day in a [[Call centre|telephone-bank room]] where the attack calls were made. Nixon later admitted he knew Voorhis was not a communist, but the important thing was to win.<ref>Sabato, Larry J. (1996). "When push comes to poll". ''Washington Monthly'', June, vol. 28 (6): 26–31.</ref><ref>Bullock, Paul (1973). "Rabbits and radicals: Richard Nixon's 1946 campaign against Jerry Voorhis". ''Southern California Quarterly'', vol. 55 (3): 319-359.</ref>