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Pollsters Scramble as Fewer People Take Their Phone Calls
MSN/WSJ ^

Posted on 10/27/2016 2:45:54 PM PDT by TigerClaws

Each day, millions of calls are placed to phone numbers that have been disconnected or are no longer in service. Everyone misdials—men and women, rich and poor, blacks and whites.

Scott Richards wants to replace the familiar “Your call cannot be completed as dialed” message with a different one: “Would you like to take a survey?”

His is among a spate of ideas bubbling up for new ways to sample public opinion. The alternatives are coming because the traditional method—randomly calling phone numbers again and again until someone answers—has grown far more labor intensive and costly in recent years.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2016polls; polls
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To: jiggyboy

You are #3!


81 posted on 10/27/2016 5:29:34 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (We are not electing a saint. We are electing an ass kicker! Vote for Trump! Defeat Illiarily!)
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To: TigerClaws

” Google is asking internet users to answer surveys before they can get access.”

My local newspaper does this before you can read an online article.

I just click the first boxes in the list as fast as I can to get the page to load.


82 posted on 10/27/2016 5:33:52 PM PDT by Rebelbase (DRAIN THE SWAMP!)
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To: freeandfreezing

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83 posted on 10/27/2016 5:35:14 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (We are not electing a saint. We are electing an ass kicker! Vote for Trump! Defeat Illiarily!)
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To: Grampa Dave

“...1 pm to 4 pm, M-F. Later I learned that was how they got the unemployed/ on welfare liberals, waking up for the day.”

Slightly off topic, realtors use a variation on this trick to sell houses in “diverse” neighborhoods-—show houses in the morning, before the crackheads wake up.


84 posted on 10/27/2016 5:36:03 PM PDT by mumblypeg (We've had a p***y in the White House for 8 years. Make America Macho Again.)
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To: vette6387

#49 AT&T sucks Hillary’s knickers!

I hated dealing with them when we had land line service. Finally I switched them later disconnected the line.

When they bought DirecTv they jacked my rate with a change to their basic plan. I called them and told them I despised their business practices when I had their phone service so I switched. I told them i wasn’t going to pay a penny more than what I had been paying.

They tried b.s.ing me. After about 10 minutes supposedly talking to their “manager” they told me they couldn’t do anything for me. I told them, then shut it down....the phone went quiet. I said ‘you still there?’ finally a voice again. I repeated it ‘shut it down today. Right now....or transfer me to the department that does

All of a sudden they decided I didn’t have to pay anything more in my monthly fee. Freaking crooks! Always scamming their customers


85 posted on 10/27/2016 5:56:52 PM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The Original 1998 Version)
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To: Grampa Dave

I’m 74 and have never been called by a pollster.


86 posted on 10/27/2016 8:32:16 PM PDT by octex
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To: PapaBear3625

Also am providing interesting demographics, and just to help them waste more energy I say I haven’t voted yet. Last night got two calls.

My son, who had been asked for by name as he is 24 and assumed to be pliable, gave minority demographics, and after saying he was voting Trump they actually got a supervisor on the line to go back over his demographics and choice. Heads were spinning.


87 posted on 10/28/2016 3:11:36 AM PDT by LibertyOh
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To: manc

It’s fun, and I lie to throw the polls way off because they lie to throw them off too...................


88 posted on 10/28/2016 6:12:24 AM PDT by Red Badger (WhereÂ’s that VIDEO the Anonymous group promised us????????????)
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To: BigEdLB

Yes it is!.............


89 posted on 10/28/2016 6:12:58 AM PDT by Red Badger (WhereÂ’s that VIDEO the Anonymous group promised us????????????)
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To: arl295

Obviously. My post was tongue in cheek.......


90 posted on 10/28/2016 7:16:04 AM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends.)
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To: octex

You are a lucky Freeper!


91 posted on 10/28/2016 7:31:30 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (We are not electing a saint. We are electing an ass kicker! Vote for Trump! Defeat Illiarily!)
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