“In addition, it’s getting much harder for pollsters to get people to respond to interviews.”
I think this is significant. I have received several phone calls from polling organizations this election year. I simply hang up on them or tell them not to call me back.
For over 20 years, I have either simply hung up on pollsters, or given them intentionally wrong answers to about half their questions compared to the way I think/vote. In addition to this lousing up their accuracy, as well as their cross-tabs, it makes their reported “Margin of Error” far too low. The “MOE” statistics they report are simple Bayesian calculations, and do not reflect intentional untruthfulness.
In the past, some FReepers have taken me to task for this. Others have joined me, and encouraged others to join me.