That was asked AFTER the Obama/Romney matchup.
Irrelevant.
How can a later question effect the way someone answered a previous question?
I wasn't referring to the previous question.Then how exactly is anyone being pushed in this poll? You have two unrelated questions - the horse race question followed by a question asking whether a local scandal affected your answer to the horse race question. Nobody was pushed to answer anything. The local scandal question is designed to gauge to what extent a local scandal hurts up ticket voters - negative reverse coattails.
A push poll is one where a pollster first asks something like "Candidate X has been known to beat his wife. Would that make you more or less likely to vote for Candidate X?", usually followed by similar questions that cast a negative light on Candidate X, followed by the horse race question (i.e. "If the election were held today, would you vote for X or Y?"). All the negative information about X pushes on-the-fence voters to say they'd vote for Y, even if they would have voted for X had the horse race question been asked first or previous questions had given a more balanced view of candidate X. There was no push polling here, because the horse race question was asked first.
