The Republican Jewish Coalition [3] says it hired the political polling firm Central Research to "understand why Barack Obama [4] continues to have a problem among Jewish voters." But the poll questions [5] upset many of the hundreds of Jewish voters in Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jersey who received the calls. Some say it was a push poll [6], designed to spread negative information and disinformation. Others say the calls, with more than 80 questions, were too long [7] to be push polls; instead, they may be testing messages for future attack ads. One question the pollsters asked is whether it would affect the respondent's vote if she or he knew that Hamas [8]' leader had "expressed support for Obama." The Republican Jewish Coalition, which has endorsed John McCain [9] for President, also helped launch the pro-war lobby group Freedom's Watch [10]. In the 2000 primary campaign, the Bush team targeted McCain [11] with a push poll in South Carolina that claimed McCain had fathered an illegitimate black baby.