Push-polling goes national

Courtesy of the joke that is FOX News.

With pretty much all polls showing Obama leading McCain, Republican State Television is getting desperate and is pulling out all the stops to get a favorable result.

From TPM. FOX's latest series of questions brings us gems like this:

Some people believe Barack Obama, despite his professed Christianity, is secretly a Muslim. Others say that is just a rumor and Obama really is a Christian as he says, and point out he's attended a Christian church for years. What do you believe -- is Obama a Muslim or a Christian

and this one:

John McCain was held captive for five years in a North Vietnamese prisoner of war camp. Do you think that experience would make McCain a better president or a worse president?

Even Colbert couldn't parody stuff like this.

And when you go out of your way to influence the results, you can then send them out to to GOP operatives in talk radio and have them crow "Fox Poll shows McCain-Obama statistical tie!," as Rush Limbaugh did today.