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Common Sense 2006, an Ohio-based group “targeting candidates who support abortion rights,” has launched a so-called “push poll” criticizing Sen. Lincoln Chafee’s (R- R.I.) stance on abortion rights in an try to weaken his support prior to the state Republican main on Tuesday, many voters in Rhode Island said, the AP/Eyewitness News reports. A push poll is designed to ask questions to minimize or increase support for a particular candidate, the AP/Eyewitness News reports. A number of voters received automated telephone calls asking which candidate — Chafee, who supports abortion rights, or Senate candidate and Cranston, R.I., Mayor Stephen Laffey (R) — they would vote for within the main. People that said they would vote for Chafee “heard graphic descriptions of an abortion process opponents call ‘partial-birth abortion,’ which the poll stated Chafee supports,” based on AP/Eyewitness News. Laffey spokesperson Nachama Soloveichik stated the campaign was not involved within the poll, and Common Sense 2006 has not commented. Typical Sense 2006 also has launched negative TV ads against Ohio gubernatorial candidate Ted Strickland (D), who supports abortion rights, AP/Eyewitness News reports (Johnson, AP/Eyewitness News, 9/7).
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