I LOVE giving bogus answers when doing polls.
The only pollster I’d talk to would be Richard Barris and maybe not even him.
Listen to Richard Baris and Robert Barnes - they point out that most of the Senate polls overstated Dem advantage by 7 plus points in 2020, it appears to be deliberate to keep R enthusiasm and participation down.
“Hello, would you like to take-”
*click*booooooooo*
Pollsters would tell accurate numbers to Democrat operatives and publish numbers with Democrats winning to discourage Republicans, that’s why.
They gave the Democrat voters a sense of no concern,. That the election was in the bag. How many decided to not go cast a vote? Suppress the suppression pols. 🙂
I agree!
The main reason in my view is to prevent them from knowing what’s really going on and what will happen.
The people in power always want to know what’s going to happen ahead of time (not bringing a piece of legislation to the floor until they know they have the votes to pass it, for example). Because they want to affect what’s going to happen or mitigate what was going to happen.
All the pollster had eggs on their faces in 2016. Because the electorate was so fluid and the pollsters were so biased that they were shocked on election day.
I like the ruling oligarchy and also pollsters being shocked on election day. We’ve already seen it in several races in the primaries this year.
The reason to lie to pollsters is: “Do you think they actually keep that information secret?”
If they know your telephone number they can get your address from the woke telephone provider. Better to lie or not answer the pollster than to have shoot down hordes of ANTIFA thugs attempting to storm your residence.
It is just that simple.
I don’t lie to them, I just refuse to participate.
As an aging whit guy in flyover country, I lOVE deking pollsters. Often, I’m a young black woman who votes Republican...but sometimes I’m a Jewish woman or Cuban male voting FOR communism-related things. Sometimes poor, sometimes rich...anything to sew their demographics the wrong way.
-PJ
I do not lie to pollsters. But neither will I participate. My views are my own private business. Except when I share them here on FR, of course!
“Harold Stassen is my man.”
I think conservative/MAGA people are keeping their mouths shut because they don't want to be labeled as white supremacists, and they are going to make their voices heard on election day.
Republicans hang up on pollsters, we’ve got better things to do.
I don’t trust the polls, so will either decline to participate or just tell them I’m undecided.
Polls are designed to do nothing more than shape public opinion.
Rarely are Republicans/conservatives contacted to participate in polls, so no need to lie.
I agree. Republicans use polls all the time. Trump uses them as well. If people are lying then it makes it hard to create strategy and adjustments.
Even so, however, it looks like the polls are pretty accurate in elections where Trump is not a candidate.
It seems to me that Trump himself is able to get some votes from Hispanic or black people who might not participate in polls. And who knows, maybe some of them are lying. So while I wish people would not lie to pollsters, I doubt that many people actually are.
They did very well in 2018.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/21/upshot/polls-2018-midterms-accuracy.html
“It was a good year for polls. This time, they got the basic story of the election right: a Democratic House and a Republican Senate. And on average, the final polls were closer to the results than any election in a decade. Best of all, the polls were relatively unbiased, meaning that one party didn’t systematically overperform or underperform its final poll results.”
And Trump’s preferred pollster did poorly that year:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/08/politics/poll-of-the-week-trumps-favorite-pollster/index.html