A/an poll is a form of negative campaigning that masquerades as a regular opinion survey.

A  push poll is a form of negative campaigning that masquerades as a regular opinion survey. The push poll is usually conducted by a campaign or allied group. It features strongly critical or unflattering information about an opponent.
this survey includes leading questions designed to change a listener's mind about an issue or candidate without actually admitting it. 

Ongoing civil wars western roman empire finally collapsed476 c.e. romulus, the last of theroman  emperors in  the west, was overthrown by the germanic leader odoacer, who became the first barbarian to rule in rome. the order that the  roman empire  had brought towestern  europe for 1000 years was no more.