I don’t answer the phone unless I recognize the number.
So, no polls for me.
I never answer my landline . That’s what the answering machine is for...
Most calls these days leave no msg. F um
Two of us in my family have received about 10 total calls in the last several weeks and have hung up on each one. If I knew it was really a political survey and not an entro to asales call, I might respond. But because so many sales pitches are camouflaged as opinion surveys, including the letters I get from the GOP, I just won’t spend the time to find out.
My phone tells me who is calling. I don’t answer if it’s an unfamiliar caller. I don’t think I’m alone on this.
I dropped the landline and went cellular about a decade ago. One nice thing about cellular is Caller ID. I use the Truecaller app to screen calls. If I don’t know who is calling, I do not answer. If ‘they’ want, they can leave a voice message.
I lie to pollsters.............
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Yes, and this justifies any poll shenanigan the pollsters want to propagate. I think they will have the race widening in Crooked's favor as the election get closer. The "common wisdom" that the pollsters have to report honestly, to preserve thier reputation, that "wisdom" is a myth. It is false.
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Not one person I know here in FL, or my wife knows have been polled, and we are all for Trump.
I block robo calls. If you want to even get through, you have to have a person dial. At which point I’ll let the answering machine screen. Only if you pass caller id and the answering machine screen to you actually have a shot at talking to me.
All polls are nonsense and are probably archaic now.
Is it just me or or does everyone first think “a CNN poll or NY Times Poll or a CBS poll....?????” What in the H**L would I believe about ANYTHING that any of these organizations put out?!! They lie about everthing and are admittedly in the tank for the Democrats so what relevance is a poll from any of them?
I never answer the phone unless I recognize the caller’s name or phone number.
We haven’t answered our phone for months......if you ain’t got a name with it......it don’t get answered and if you don’t leave a message you’re dead to us. I especially look out for the 202 area code.
I want a D+89 sample!!!
Anyone who knows me calls my cell phone-if I don’t recognize the number I don’t answer either my cell phone or land line-and I’ve set my answering machine to pick up/hang up after 4 rings-no message-when I get home from work, I go over caller ID to see if I recognize a number-almost never do...
IOW: Not our fault we were wrong!
We’ve had early voting in many states for several weeks now. It is not allowed to publicly disclose exit polls until they close on Nov 8.
But trust me, exit polling is being done and the results are getting leaked to the campaigns. They know the score.
Suddenly we have Trump going to NH, ME and IA. Crooked Hillary is going to MI, WI and PA.
This schedule tells the tale. Trump is surging and the embattled Crooked Hillary campaign is in full panic mode.
This is a big part of the pollsters problem
An even bigger part of it is the conformity of thought and ideological bias among the pollsters. I have no doubt they “assume” too much and that is filtering through to bad conclusions.
Reminds me of 2008 Wall Street crash and credit default swaps. All the players lived in the same bubble, talked the same talk, and confirmed each others faulty assumptions.