Posted on 10/23/2008 6:31:47 PM PDT by Saab-driving Yuppie
Quinnipiac called our home last night and they left a message. I didn't call back but they called again tonight around 8 pm eastern.
They asked to speak to either the oldest person in the household or the one whose birthday is next. On both counts, that's me.
She (African-American-sounding female, calling from CT, sounded in her 20s or 30w) asked me if I had a few minutes to take a survey on current events or something like that. I was dealing with a needy toddler so this may not be 100% dead-on.
She asked me if I was a registered voter, a likely voter, etc. Next she asked me if I was voting for SSeantor Obama the Democrat, SEnator McCain the Republican, or some other candidate. I said McCain.
She asked me if I had favorable or unfavorable impressions of Obama, McCain, Biden, and Palin, in that order. It was always Senator McCain, SEnator Obama, etc, and Governor Palin (hough Palin came up but once).
She asked me what I tohught the most important issue was and I gave it (economy) and then asked me who I thought was best suited to deal with Congress on the issue (McCain).
She asked if I approved of the job Bush was doing and if it was strong/weak approval/disapproval.
She hased if I considered myself a D/R/I. And if I was lib/mod/conserv.
She asked if this was my first time voting in a presidential election, if I voted in 2004, and for whom, all in separate questions.
She asked about which party, if any, I voted for in the primary earlier this year.
Then we got into some questions about democgraphics: married, racial, religous, born-again, Catholic/Protestant, educational attainment, income level in the household.
Elapsed time, 6:32.
I've given surveys before (not political ones) and she played it by the book, though I may have picked up some annoyance when I first said McCain.
OK, so I got polled, the question is whether it'll get counted and weighted properly.
For the record , called ID came up New Haven CT with the number 203-582-3050.
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You should had told them you’re a democrat. That’ll teach them not to manipulate polls so much the next time.
That is a terrible idea. Too many people vote for the person they think is going to win, a psychological thing.
You will never know because your responses should be combined anonymously with all the others. If they were not, there isn’t any means of back-tracking or checking. It is sort of like voting...
I would hang up on anyone who asked me how much I made.
I got polled yesterday by SurveyUSA.
I felt intimidated by their machine and didn't want to be accused of being called a racist, so I told them I was an independent who was voting for Barry.
At this point, I wanted it counted and they gave me a pretty big range. Fact is, I am proud of how much I am making now.
Keep in mind that, according to the American Association for Public Opinion Research statistics and numbers it takes 9600 attempts to get 500 reponses from likely voters.
I work at a university and I can tell you flat out that there is no way a small school like this can do that. Nor is there anyway a larger school would spend the money for to make the needed 9600 attempts.
So where do these college polls come from?
A friend at Quinnipiac told me his daughter “worked” for the school doing polls. She reported making up the responses whenever she could. Now THAT’s the college students I know and see regularly.
I just got polled (didn’t get name of polster)..asked what year I was born,,,didn’t like my answer (I’m not in my 20’s or 30’s). Said they didn’t need any more from my age category.
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