Posted on 10/22/2006 7:17:07 PM PDT by MHT
Twenty-five years after registering to vote, I finally got polled by a national news group. And, as usual, Rush was right. However, there are a few things which I want to share.
1. The interviewer really wanted to talk to me. I was on another call and told them to call me back in 10 minutes. They did, indicating to me that they are having difficulty reaching people who wish to talk to them.
2. The questions were phrased in a very subtle way that focused on an anti-Bush agenda. For example, "Do you think that Bush is responsible for the situation in Iraq?" That's a yes/no question. They could have made it multiple choice. At best, Bush gets a 50% chance of being blamed for Iraq instead of insurgents, radical Islam, outside funding, etc.
3. Similarly, other questions required yes/no answers where gradation would have been more appropriate. Only when I said that I couldn't answer yes/no about my approval of Congress was I offered an opportunity to be "supportive", "somewhat supportive", etc.
3. When they asked me who I was going to vote for in the Missouri Senate race, I told them and they immediately asked me if I was sure or if my mind could be changed. Is that really a polling question?
There is no question that this was a Democratically-biased poll and that the information is going to make others like me out to be rich suburbanites who are ignorant Christians living in fly-over territory blindly following a despictable President. If so, I'm proud to have done my share. At least there's one more loyal Republican that they can't ignore.
Actually, they then weight your answer as part of the 35 percent Republicans and take someone else as part of the 65 percent Democrats.
So you get only half a point that they need to count.
Same here... it was middle of last week. They'd ask a question with multiple parts and I'd argue that the question could contain contrary answers, and therefore invalid.
They never poll me, maybe that's because I always lie.
Did they identify themselves as part of an upcoming LA Times article?
sounds painful :)
I tell them I'm voting for Santa Claus.
You must be an anomaly. I get poll calls so much I've started telling them I'm a convicted felon and can't vote.
I have been attempted poll repeatedly. I always tell the to go "f" themselves and hang up.
I know where they are headed and quite frankly I don't want them to be able to generate accurate results. Then when the actual election result shows them to be full of s&!t, I am happier that I didn't participate.
Also, if they are getting accurate poll results then it also shows them the issues they need to hammer on to sway the election to the democRATS.
If I do answer I answer with things opposite of what I really think.
"Do you think that Bush is responsible for the situation in Iraq?"
Seems like a poor 'Yes/No' question for a poll trully designed to elicit information, which it probably wasn't.
The answer could be "Yes, the situation would be much worse if Bush had not taken action to oust Saddam."
Tell 'em to wait until the polls close Nov 7 and we'll all find out at the same time. What a concept.
Curses, foiled again!
I hate phone solicitations so much, I'd probably hang up regardless.
I have sometimes felt guilty about this, because maybe I could make a poll look better if I took the trouble to answer. But from what I see in the media and what you say, I think most of these are push polls, anyway. And I wouldn't put it past them to simply ignore or rule out any answers they don't like.
In other words, it's no longer possible to trust the pollsters.
We get polled at least once a week. Of course I always answer that Bush is evil and we need all of Congress to be Democratic and all of the state needs to be Democratic. Then the wife and I laugh and laugh seeing the poll numbers being reported. Maybe because we answer as we do is why we keep getting polled. Incidentally we vote straight GOP.
Yeah, that's legit.
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