Also, the sleazy wording could inflate the stats another way: If there are 300 people and one person grabs a microphone to pronounce Obama scares him, then that's 300 people that now "know someone" who is scared of Obama.
Looks like FOX removed the poll! If you do a Google search you still find blogs linking to it, but FOX apparently pulled it.
-B.
Doug Henwood wrote:
"It's also a pollster's trick for probing what people think themselves but don't want to admit to. E.g., 'are you too racist to vote for a black guy? How about your neighbor/uncle?' Saw one of those re: Obama just this morning. Especially acute for the old folks - they're not afraid to vote for the black guy, but they know their friends are."