[know.your.why]

I'm kind of a newb here. Please except my apologies if this is out of bounds.

[HangnJudge]

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.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

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.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

Never ... lots of calls asking for money.

[woodbutcher1963]

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.

[Salman]

I’ve been called by pollsters occasionally, but I always hang up on them.

[cincinnati65]

I got push-polled in GA not too long ago. It was easy to tell it was a push-poll because one question was positioned as "which of the following affects your opinion of Georgia Legislature Republicans the most negatively?" coupled with a question like "which of the following affects your opinion of Georgia Legislature Republican the most positively?".

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."

[doc11355]

for my wife and I: never

[USS Alaska]

In 2016 I was polled twice by computer, not by a human.

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.

[ph_balanced]

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.

[redpoll]

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

[Oatka]

I'm on the YouGov survey list and about once a month get one on politics. They get an earful, especially if they have push-poll questions like the below:

They didn't ask the question with the names changed.

This one either:

[dinodino]

Yes, twice this year already.

[Rockingham]

Yes. Several times.

[NEMDF]

We are polled dozens if not hundreds of times each campaign season. MANY MANY MANY TIMES.

[Flavious_Maximus]

I have gotten mostly robocalls where you have to enter a number for your answers.

I have gotten only one call (in 2004) where I actually spoke with a person.

[Yo-Yo]

Yes, several times.

[chiller]

Yes. Several times. By DYNATA on landline. And yesterday via text from MonkeySurvey.

[all the best]

More than once

[Luke21]

Just got polled last night. But I’m a registered independent. Was my first time. My son, also an independent, got polled two weeks ago.

All about candidate selections and job performance. No issues. Bunch was out of San Francisco, polling races in Arizona and the presidential selection.

[Trumplican]

I was polled about oil drilling and environmental issues. It started out basic, non sleazy. Within a few questions, the questions were worded and twisted so that I would have to answer the way they wanted me to answer to promote their environmental wacko views.