Posted on 09/03/2020 12:06:14 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Its NOTHING to do with shyness, it has to do with FEAR..I wont tell anyone who I am voting for out of fear of being killed. I dont answer the phone to pollsters and I will be voting in person
Agreed. I am a loyal and determined Trump supporter but you wouldn’t know by my car, head or yard. I don’t favor seeing my car keyed or being assaulted. I do contribute financially to the campaign but forget the “loud and proud”. I admire those people but I am a female senior citizen in a deep blue state and have to be realistic: the leftists are the real fascists and Brown Shirts.
Polls in 2016 were inaccurate (or corrupt) and they will learn 2020 will be much more extreme.
ANTIFA/BLM is rampaging through the streets. Media, universities, and many corporations are all full-court-press on shrill, “woke” politics, and in many cases, they will seek to punish people who expose their politics. In such an environment, few average Americans would expose their true political feelings to strangers.
Therefore, they lie to or ignore, pollsters. For me, when pollsters call, I purposely lie to them - not out of fear, but to screw with their results.
You are right, it has everything to do with fear. I’m voting for Trump but would never put a sign in my yard or sticker on my car for fear of what the crazy left might do.
I think it is our ace in the hole. Under sampling caused HRC to misallocate resources 4 years ago, and I think it is much worse (or better) this year.
It is really simple.
How many ‘Pubbies or conservatives will key a car with Biden/Harris 2020 on it?
And how many Democrats will key a car (or worse) with Trump/Pence 2020 on it?
You keep quiet, lie to pollsters, and make your political statement in the voting booth.
But one thing to remember - they do know if you voted.
For sure. I can’t talk about politics except with my brother. We agree on all of it.
As for work and others... never happen. The place where I work is VERY liberal and I’d probably be fired.
I certainly would not do a bumper sticker or a yard sign... that just invites vandalism, or worse
For more than half his life, PTrump was a progressive democrat.
People forget. John Jr was his best friend.
GEEZE I am in CA. have ALWAYS had a flag on my house I am even afraid of that right now I do have firearms but these people have become vicious and CRAZY!! I would NEVER even consider putting a sign in my yard because of damage to my home or car!! I have a MAGA MASK which I wear to enter stores (required) you can just SEE the people seething and wanting to rip that mask right off my face I am SMILING under mask I LOVE pissing them off!,
Lying in wait vote.
Slam it down your throat vote.
“when pollsters call, I purposely lie to them”
There is a lot of that going on for sure. Do you get caller ID that indicates pollsters, or do you just answer the phone and there is one on the other end? If the latter, what does the caller ID say? I do not answer the phone unless I know who it is and I want to talk to them. But I might be tempted to if I know I could help screw up the pollsters numbers.
So you think people voted for him because they thought he was a closet liberal?
True story: I’m walking out of Chipotle with my teenage daughter. We are wearing NOTHING political and my car has NOTHING political on it. As we are walking to our car, a black guy sitting in a car next to us with his window down says: “Yo, you with Trump”? I responded: Absolutely. He responded: “Then go F yourself.”
I wasn’t scared, but I know many women or older folks would have been frightened by this. Yes, some Trump people feel intimidated.
Absolutely spot on. And just as vicious, if not more so. They've attacked cars and their occupants just because the look like they might be Trump supporters. A friend in Provo, Utah, one of the reddest towns in the country, sent me an news items about some white trash BLM supporters who actually shot a man in his vehicle who happened to be driving through for apparently no other reason than he was white and older looking.
They were from out of town and, fortunately, identified quite quickly. The local DA is throwing the book at them.
Good question. The calls are usually to my place of business, so we tend to answer all calls, even though we do get a lot of spam. Sometimes it will say the organization’s name, sometimes a person’s name, sometimes just ‘private caller.’ Few are actually “real people.” Many are robocalls. I have even started get text poll requests to my cell phone. Oddly, those have been for out-of-state issues, that I can’t even vote on. I answer them anyway. Perhaps my willingness to answer has put me on a list of potential suckers who will answer calls. So be it.
Given all this, and the corruption of the media and political hacks who will ultimately use (and spin) these polls, I feel no responsibility whatsoever to give them the truth. I am sorry if some of these may be conservatives looking for the truth, but from the slant of their questioning, I can tell nearly all are liberal pollsters.
I recall a youtube video from 2008, where a person alternately put Obama stickers on their car, and Palin stickers on their car, and measured the number of times each was scratched or vandalized (they had a very cheap car, I recall).
As I remember, the results were far worse than even you might imagine.
I have an app on my android phone that sends all callers not in my contacts to voice mail.
The left uses polls to manipulate the electorate; I’m fully supportive of those who mold their responses to mislead and frustrate the pollsters.
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