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[Alicia Mattson]

Rich,

Thanks for the good question.

The portion of my proposal in question reads (caps added for emphasis),
"They shall not be portrayed as spoilers, either directly or by
implication, such as NOTING that the candidate's performance spans the
margin between two other candidates."

With this wording, I would interpret it as the latter of the two things you
asked about.  Poll results can be shown, even if they happen to demonstrate
that the candidate spans the gap, so long as that detail is not the point
of what they are saying.  The surrounding text should not about some
"spoiler" angle of that data.  The news should rather be that the candidate
may be poised to retain our ballot access, or that the polling may suggest
we'll see better results than past similar candidates, or some other
positive news, etc.

-Alicia



On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Rich Tomasso <rtomasso at lpnh.org> wrote:

> On 11/29/2014 4:59 PM, Alicia Mattson wrote:
>
>> This new policy would require that our public communications portray our
>> candidates as people seeking to change public policy by getting
>> themselves elected, not as spoilers who get their kicks by just being
>> monkey wrenches in some other candidate's election plans.
>>
>
> Just to clarify, with your proposed language, would an article
> highlighting a poll showing the Libertarian candidate polling at greater
> than the difference b/t his or her opponents be considered in violation of
> this? Or should there simply be no text pointing out their percentage is
> greater than the difference of the other candidates?
>
>
> ~Rich
>  Region 8 Rep
>
>
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