I Finally Got Polled!

LA Times, NBC ^ | 10-22-06 | self

[Navy Patriot]

I had identified my zip code, they would probably already had our income range.

Wait a minute, I thought the evil Bush was eavesdropping on everybody and recording their phone conversations! You mean that it's the pollsters that are spying on us?

[Deek1969]

I was telling all my friends to tell the Pollsters Demos all they way , That way after the Election it will be that much more entertaining. They will have to figure out how all those polls can be that far off and Blaming DieBold and ROVE!

[Lancey Howard]

By the way, when pollsters call me, I poll THEM

1. Are you employed to poll on behalf of any particular candidate or political party?
2. Do you know what "push polling" is?
3. Did your mother have any children that lived?

[Navy Patriot]

I tell them I'm voting for Santa Claus.

My union tells me that the government IS Santa Claus.

[Gordongekko909]

Yeah, the question is loaded. It assumed that Iraq is going to hell in a handbasket, and was a nice happy place with flowers and kites and children while Saddam was in power. If you assume both of those things, which the question does, then there is no answer other than that Bush is responsible for "the situation."

I wouldn't expect the MSM to ask someone how they thought things were going in Iraq, of course. And even if they did, the question would just be a different way of asking, "are we, the MSM, portraying the situation in Iraq as sufficiently hopeless?"

Friggin' useless polls.

[CyberAnt]

I go them one better .. I have caller ID so I don't answer the phone.

Why should I tell them what I'm going to do - let them think they're going to win and then we'll skunk them election day!! I love it!!

[Radix]

It is the Patriotic DUTY of all Americans to lie to any and to all pollsters when they call.

Lying about anything that they ask about is a good thing to do.

It is not like really lying, (like lying to your mother or something) ....It is more like stopping people from engaging in a subversive process that is solely designed to negatively impact the only real poll that there is.

The real polls are called "elections."

[Navy Patriot]

Then the wife and I laugh and laugh seeing the poll numbers being reported.

You deserve a reward for your sacrifice. MHT accurately described the loaded questions you gotta put up with.

[eyespysomething]

I was polled by CBS News about 2 months ago, and I felt the same way, the questions needed more than a yes or no. But I did get to use "Islamofascist" and could hear the sneer in his tone when I told him I was an evangelical Christian. Even if I wasn't, I would've told him I was.

[gidget7]

"I was telling all my friends to tell the Pollsters Demos all they way , That way after the Election it will be that much more entertaining. They will have to figure out how all those polls can be that far off and Blaming DieBold and ROVE!"


Not to mention the more the media tells us the Dems will win, the more determined Republicans will be determined to prove them wrong :)

[scrabblehack]

Hmmm....I got into a discussion about urban renewal on a listserv and someone wanted the price of new housing to follow a certain price range, with expensive houses integrated in with inexpensive ones. I pointed out this was a stupid idea -- once a house was classified into a certain price range, would its owner be forbidden from selling it at a price outside of that range? Also, when the county reassesses property, they do not examine every property, but rather the assessment of a nearby house carries more influence than one further away.

Someone else took issue with me and asked me why I had chosen to live in such an "economically diverse" area. I crunched the data from census.gov and reported that my lower income neighborhood wasn't as economically diverse as all that. Indeed, it was the affluent part of the county that was economically diverse. That was the end of that discussion.

I'm not sure if that pattern is generally true or not...your comment makes me wonder...hmmm....if you live in a very urban area (say metro LA or Chicago) with very small zip codes, maybe not.

[woodb01]

You just don't understand, ALL of the polling organizations HAVE to slant the polls 15 - 25% in favor of democrats to accurately account for all of the vote fraud and illegal aliens...

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This thread title sounds like a porno flick.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Gallup called me last week. I thought I'd gotten my chance.

Turned out it was a poll of which phone book I use and how often! The guy laughed and said, yeah, a lot of people are disappointed when they find that out after hearing the word "Gallup".

[Big Giant Head]

I was polled today. I asked repeatedly who the pollster was working for. She kept saying she didn't know, she only is doing the polling. I asked her, incredulously, "You don't know who you work for?" I knew this was a cruddy poll when she couldn't answer me.

[Paloma_55]

1. Do you think the war in Iraq is failing?

2. Where do you get your opinion on the state of the war in Iraq? a) Newspapers b) TV News c) Comedy Shows

3. Do you believe our policies in Iraq, and the war on terror in general, should be based upon polls?

[quikdrw]

I was polled twice. The first time I was a Perot supporter. They stopped asking me questions. During the 2000 race, I told them that I support Raplh Nader. Both of those were lies. Maybe, I have been found out and won't be polled anymore.

[MHT]

I believe that it's called "geo-demographic clustering" and is used in marketing. A few years ago, politicos were using the same data to immediately air contrary and competitive ads in selected zip codes based on ads or sound bit previously shown by their rivals. The Dems had a national ad program which ran on autopilot by computer and it worked well before the RNC figured out the impact of the GOTV micro-networking.

[GoBucks2002]

I have never been polled for a race in which I could actually vote.

I was polled three times for the mayor's race in the city of cincinnati. Trouble is, I don't live within 15 miles of the city limits.

Also, I have now been polled twice for the Second Congressional District (once in the primary, Schmidt vs, McEwen and once in the general, Schmidt vs Wulsin). Trouble is, I don't live there either.

They're getting closer: I'm only 10 miles from that border.

Can't wait to be polled on the Kentucky 4 race. (I live in Ohio.)

[tubebender]

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.

That sounds like a classic push poll question to me...