O.K. I feel the need to add my two cents.
I’ve been Phoneing Fror Fred to S.C. and unless everyone is lying to me, or I’m calling a Fred hotspot, NO ONE has told me they are voting for McCrazy and only ONE person said they were voting for ther Huckster.
Everyone else said they (and everyone they know) are voting for Fred, or leaning that way!
I am a HUGE fan of Fred, but who makes up your call list?? Is this just a list of known FredHeads or of registered Republicans??
If the Thompson campaign did even a remotely decent job (we can’t be certain of this because they were the leavings of the major campaigns since Thompson arrived so late) then the phone list you have been calling from (assuming they gave it to you) is intended to be names they think will support their guy and your calls are supposed to get them to the polls. You don’t assign volunteers to call people and hold philosophy discussions. You assign volunteers to GOTV.
So . . . I suspect your sample is tainted. If instead they told you to start from a phone book, then . . . sorry, they are incompetent.