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The Hang-ups of Phone Polls... Literally
The New Republic ^
| September 25, 2008
| Michelle Cottle, Christopher Orr, and Jason Zengerie
Posted on 09/26/2008 3:41:54 AM PDT by Zakeet
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Author's conclusion: It's admittedly a SWAG* but those in the industry are sure they're getting it right, even though they don't know for sure.
*Scientific Wild-Assed Guess
Interesting comment at the end of the article: Just an anecdotal observation, but the people I know who are partisan (either Dems or Republicans) are much more likely to talk to pollsters than the independents, who aren't that interested in discussing their views. There are so many more independents today than even a few election cycles ago, so I wonder if they are part of the problem in getting good response rates.
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posted on
09/26/2008 3:41:59 AM PDT
by
Zakeet
To: Zakeet
If there is not a name or I do not recognize the number on caller ID, I do not answer the phone.
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posted on
09/26/2008 3:46:41 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(Vote McWhatshisname and PALIN)
To: bmwcyle
I won’t answer either unless I know the number.
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posted on
09/26/2008 3:48:02 AM PDT
by
scooby321
(Cai)
To: Zakeet
Interesting. Thanks for posting this.
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posted on
09/26/2008 3:48:36 AM PDT
by
syriacus
(Under Bush, Dems controlled the Senate for MOST of the 107th Congress and for ALL of the 110th)
To: Zakeet
Scott Keeter, director of survey research at Pew, added that while there was evidence a decade ago that people with racially conservative views were likely to put their receivers down, that trend has diminished. "In 1997, the first time we did [an experiment], we did find a small--I emphasize small--degree of potential bias in under-representing racial conservatism OK, I'll bite. What do "racially conservative" and "racial conservatism" mean?
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posted on
09/26/2008 3:49:57 AM PDT
by
stevem
To: Zakeet
The comment “should we be worried” leaves me wondering what the worry is about. That they aren’t getting it right, or that the One is gonna get his butt handed to himself. LOL I think it is the latter.
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posted on
09/26/2008 3:50:46 AM PDT
by
healy61
To: Zakeet
many folks, with caller id, don’t waste their time with polls, a lot of working folks don’t give a rap.. polls are for media junkies...like 3 small minnows in the Mississippi River feeling REAL important about themselves for being bait..
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posted on
09/26/2008 3:57:16 AM PDT
by
rusureitflies?
(OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD! There, I said it. Prove me wrong.)
To: Zakeet
many folks, with caller id, don’t waste their time with polls, a lot of working folks don’t give a rap.. polls are for media junkies...like 3 small minnows in the Mississippi River feeling REAL important about themselves for being bait..
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posted on
09/26/2008 3:57:50 AM PDT
by
rusureitflies?
(OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD! There, I said it. Prove me wrong.)
To: Zakeet
many folks, with caller id, don’t waste their time with polls, a lot of working folks don’t give a rap.. polls are for media junkies...like 3 small minnows in the Mississippi River feeling REAL important about themselves for being bait..
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posted on
09/26/2008 3:58:32 AM PDT
by
rusureitflies?
(OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD! There, I said it. Prove me wrong.)
To: Zakeet
many folks, with caller id, don’t waste their time with polls, a lot of working folks don’t give a rap.. polls are for media junkies...like 3 small minnows in the Mississippi River feeling REAL important about themselves for being bait..
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posted on
09/26/2008 3:59:03 AM PDT
by
rusureitflies?
(OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD! There, I said it. Prove me wrong.)
To: Zakeet
uh, so people who hang up are “racists”?
To: healy61
I keep going back to states like NH during the Dem primary. Obama overpolled BIGTIME, and Hillary won. I think that’s what the pollsters are afraid of.
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posted on
09/26/2008 4:02:18 AM PDT
by
Dawn531
To: rusureitflies?
Need to work on that stutter mate.
;-)
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posted on
09/26/2008 4:02:41 AM PDT
by
Islander7
("Common sense and common decency are uncommon virtues among America's left.")
To: rusureitflies?
geeeze it posted 3 times...a glitch somewhere,,, oops,phone ringing, gots to go to take a poll .
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posted on
09/26/2008 4:04:00 AM PDT
by
rusureitflies?
(OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD! There, I said it. Prove me wrong.)
To: Zakeet
I have not been polled, but I have often thought I would just tell them that I’d vote for Obama. I am sick of the pollsters influencing the elections. Lets make them a big joke.
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posted on
09/26/2008 4:04:40 AM PDT
by
BRL
To: Zakeet
these people should be the hanging chads in the poll numbers
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posted on
09/26/2008 4:19:28 AM PDT
by
dubie
To: Zakeet
Zogby is being reported as stating, "The presidential election might be a tight race now, but one of the countrys top pollsters thinks the race will end in an electoral landslide."
... the country will likely vote for a comfortable old shoe, that being Republican Sen. John McCain.
Apparently there is a landslide sized shit load of of bitter religious gun clinging racists out there.
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posted on
09/26/2008 4:27:25 AM PDT
by
MrBambaLaMamba
(Hussein Obama or Death 2008! He is #2! He is #2!)
To: Aussiebabe
What about the people that hung up the phone during the Bush - Kerry election..Did black people hang up?
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posted on
09/26/2008 4:27:35 AM PDT
by
just me
(Looks like the MSM moonbats have been infected with rabies..)
To: Zakeet
I never take part in polls, and when I do end up with a pollster on the line, I tell them “I'm on the National Do Not Solicit List.” That always brings a “I'm not soliciting you for money.” which I always respond with “You trying to solicit my opinion.” Then I hang up. It's a total waste of my time, but it makes me feel good :)
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posted on
09/26/2008 4:28:36 AM PDT
by
Dixie Yooper
(Ephesians 6:11)
To: BRL
I have not been polled, but I have often thought I would just tell them that Id vote for Obama. I am sick of the pollsters influencing the elections. Lets make them a big joke. I actually had a pollster object when I refused to participate, and try to persuade me to respond.
"You'll just publish what you want, anyway. Never call again."
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