They didn't ask the question with the names changed.
This one either: 
Posted on 08/24/2020 8:22:48 AM PDT by know.your.why
I've never ever been polled for my political opinion nor have I ever heard of anyone saying they have. Has anyone here?
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We were a Nielsen family for a spell.
Yes, I was.. by SurveyUSA in 2011.
I get polled at least 3 or 4 times a month during silly season. I made myself a “swing” voter so they poll me a lot (most are push polls).
My “profile”: I chastise them for assuming gender. I am ethnically undefined. I vote occasionally. I have no political affiliations.
I do my part to try and shape policy.
I always ask which polling company they are with and quickly google it while they are online to shape my responses. Lib outfits get pushed more bat crap crazy lib. Conservative ones I blast for letting the RINO’s rule the roost.
I love when there is an “essay” question. Many many candidates have heard recordings of me.
I live in an ultra liberal state in Washington. I have been called a few times, lucky me, as our senators and state and fed legislators are all liberal and figure with numbers they can get away with asking a couple of questions and then hanging up when they find I’m conservative.
They only identify themselves as pollsters and not who they represent. (Although you can tell early from the two sided questions they ask) So I get huffy, explain to them about Benghazi, Afghanistan, and Iran, and they run for cover.
If I don’t feel good that day, happens often, they don’t make it past the ring stage. But they are blatantly obvious and stupid. And they think I am, too. You’d think they’d mark my number off the rollover machine they use. But it appears they are paid by the hour, and not $15.
rwood
Yes. But that was a long time ago. Closer to college age. Don’t really recall what.
I have several times recently.
I lie.
or hang up.
Yep, by PEWWWWW, about a year ago. They sent me a letter, with log-in info. They were real, as I went to their website, rather than trusting what was in the letter, and the info worked. Lots of questions, but I passed.
I was polled several times back in the 90s, but once we cut the landlines, the calls stopped.
We did that too.
Also had local radio station ratings. I actually filled out time charts for what I listened to for like a week.
If I was, I didn’t answer the phone, or hung up on them after I figured out what they were doing. Got a few “push” polls a while back, not so much asking for opinions, but designed to drive through a specific point/get donations/sign petition etc.
I answered questions for a survey once. A nice young (sounded black) woman from Baltimore, years ago. The problem was, it’s so hard to find respondents that she kept calling back with new surveys. I know she needed the money, but as much as I want to help, I couldn’t devote that much time.
It definitely was *not* a push poll, the questions were not designed to elicit any particular response. One problem with these polls is that they oversample people who are willing to waste time talking to pollsters, and I suspect that the callers call the same “random” sample over and over because they are known to be “suckers”. (I have gotten calls from the Massachusetts GOP, which are just disguised solicitations for money. I don’t count those.)
We don’t even answer the phone anymore, with caller ID, unless we recognize the caller. If they leave a message, we know whether or not to call back.
Never ... lots of calls asking for money.
It depends where you live.
I live in NH. I am a registered Republican.
So is my wife.
NH is a swing state.
Therefore, they attempt to call me or my wife all the time.
In addition, I used to participate in Zogby’s online pole. I no longer do. It was an internet poll that was sent to me once a week. It took about 10 minutes to complete.
I’ve been called by pollsters occasionally, but I always hang up on them.
There was one question on my level of determination to vote in this year's Presidential election. Very determined, slightly determined, etc. My answer was, "Let me put it this way. I'm voting this year if I have to crawl on my hands and knees to get to my polling place."
for my wife and I: never
I claimed to be a 35 year old lesbian, latina and I was going to vote for hildabutchbitch.
This cycle, I have not been polled, but if I get polled, I will be a 39 year old lesbian, latinx, {I've progressed} that is going to vote for slow joe and the hoe.
I have received many calls from pollsters in the last several years. I always decline to participate and hang up. I have a landline phone and don’t use a cell.
I have been polled, numerous times. I don’t know why, maybe my name is on a list or something, but I get calls constantly - maybe a dozen or so every year, usually clustered around elections and primaries.
It’s been an interesting journey. Ten or 15 years ago, I would answer the questions honestly and thoughtfully, but somewhere around the start of the Obama administration, I started to see that polls were being used to manipulate opinion rather than reflect it.
Remember robocalls? I kept getting them during Obama I. It annoyed me to the point where I put my 10-year-old son on the son to answer various questions. I was especially disgusted by the questions about race and ethnicity, so I told my son to be a Japanese woman, about 40, and a Democrat.
Then there was the era of push polls. I’m savvy enough to know a push poll when I get one, and this is the one time I enjoy myself, telling the pollster that I know it’s a push poll, something that’s easy enough to determine from the questions. Then I start asking the pollster which candidate they’re working for, and they mostly don’t know, since they’re just a poorly paid dude (or dudette) reading a script. It’s how I knew Dunleavy and Sullivan were running for office before they announced. (I’m in Alaska.)
We just got a call from Galvin, the Demo running against Don Young, last week.
I hate to say this, but I’ll often just make up shit to mess with the poll, especially if its obvious that the poll is designed to create a story rather than reflect opinion. I don’t think I’ve answered the questions about race and ethnicity honestly in years.
But to answer your question - we are the only people we know who get these calls. Hmmmmmm
They didn't ask the question with the names changed.
This one either:
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