[PapaBear3625]

People no longer answer the phone unless they want to do so. PEW reported that by the time you get an adult on the phone, and find out they are willing to answer a polster, you are down to just 9% of the people you called. At that level you no longer have a statistically valid poll and there's little meaningful information you can get out of it.

And then there's people like me. I go out of my way to answer poll calls, just so I can tell them I'm a Democrat who hates Obama, just to mess with them.

[muawiyah]

Following the PEW analysis that’d mean you are at least 20 times more important today than you would have been 30 years ago.