1.   A push poll is more a trick of persuasion than a legitimate polling technique.

2.   Bush has threatened to fire any campaign staff member involved with push polls.

3.   Bush on Friday denied using the technique, and his campaign released a phone script that is critical of McCain but falls short of being a push poll.

4.   But Noble said the commission had not considered identifying push polls by the number of respondents.

5.   But precise details of that push poll are fuzzy because the Dole campaign declined to release the script.

6.   By contrast to the long, detailed questions, she said push polls are usually short and punchy in order to reach as many people as possible.

7.   Howard Opinsky, a spokesman for McCain, said the firm was not conducting push polls for his campaign.

8.   Morales said that in the push poll that Rove helped draft, his positions on an array of issues, including gun control and affirmative action, were mischaracterized.

9.   Much more is known about a push poll conducted in March in Texas.

10.   Push poll became controversial when the technique surfaced in politics three years ago.