Pollsters today are like the buggy whip makers in the early 1900’s, facing economic devastation because they can’t poll many people. They are in a losing battle with social media.
Many of the so called pollsters have been Democrat Operatives for decades going back to when they predicted Carter would beat Reagan.
Now, they are trying to compete with cell phones, social media and the problem of less landline phones.
More and more people on both ends of the age spectrum do not have landline phones. They only have cell phones.
Does anyone with a cell phone ever answer any unknown numbers and specifically any 800 #’s?
Probably not.
We use no more robocalls on our two land lines. Zero pollsters have gotten through since we started using no more robocalls, 2 plus years ago.
None of our voting age relatives have received a call from any pollster this election. That is 20+ Trump voters.
Then, there is this on social media versus polls:
Social Media Patterns Show Trump Is Looking at a Landslide Victory
Gateway Pundit ^ | Aug 7th, 2016 | Jim Hoft
Posted on 8/7/2016, 8:32:37 AM by detective
Current polls show the race for President is much tighter than it really is. Ann Coulter warned us years ago in her bestseller Slander that Democrats and the liberal media always use polls to manipulate and discourage conservatives from voting. Thanks to social media there is more and more evidence that the polls are way off and if things stay as they are, Trump will win in a landslide!
It’s evident that, Hillary has a hard time filling a Union Hall or high school gym while Trump regularly turns people away from his stadium and arena venues.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3457347/posts
A final question have you or any Trump voters, you know, actually been polled this year?
I only have a mobile phone and I don’t answer any number I don’t recognize. I figure if it’s important, they’ll leave a message and a call-back number.
I have
“More and more people on both ends of the age spectrum do not have landline phones. They only have cell phones.”
That’s why poll questions are weighted.
With that pollsters can determine the answers that cell phone only households would provide if they were to be polled.
With weighting, and an accurate sample frame, pollsters can interview 856 people and obtain results with 3.5% margin or error.
No, and I have even started answering those calls. Turns out they were all robo calls wanting to lend my business money I don’t need.
We use no more robocalls on our two land lines. Zero pollsters have gotten through since we started using no more robocalls, 2 plus years ago.”
ditto. and i also have a white list to let those through I want, and a catchall filter that shunts the rest to an interactive voice response of me explaining how to press 1 if you want to talk with me. that little baby stops the rest cold.
And i’m building my own block list of numbers that routes them to a “this number is no longer in service” message followed by the related ‘Special Information Tones’ (S.I.T.)tone, which robocaller equipment will respond to by deleting your number from its lists. Now that has REALLY cut down on the junk calls as the word gets out that my number has been disconnected!
I have been robo-called on an unpublished digital phone at my office since the beginning of the primaries (not so much lately though).
Once in a while I listen until the machine asks for the first response. The questions are always aimed at someone living hundreds of miles from where I work.
They need to work on their location algorithm.