Spray your phone with Lysol, quick. -:)
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In case you’re wondering, I played it straight, though I wish now I’d told her I was a Dem or that I’d voted for Kerry.
Quinnipiac is a university in Hamden, Connecticut, just North of New Haven. Their polling institute saves money by hiring their students to make the calls. The woman you talked to was in all probability a student.
You screwed up.
You were supposed to tell the pollster you are voting for 0bama.
Interesting...I wonder how many poll operators are African American? Possibly a lot of them who polled the NH primary?? just wondering.
It will get counted. The scam is in who they call.
You were much more honest than I was. I was called several weeks ago by a machine. It may have been Rasmussen. I claimed I was a black female voting for McCain and said I was making half a million dollars a year.
Prior to that I had a live person call. I asked if I got paid for my information. I was told no and then I asked if the callee got paid. She answered yes. I said they had the wrong business model and hung up.
DJ Drummond has been doing some extensive analysis on why he thinks the pollsters just are so "off" this year, and part of his analysis is that ALL these pollsters are located in the Washington/NY/East Coast beltway; that they all (likely) employ liberal kids to do their polling; and that invariably this taints the samples, no matter how careful they are.
I called the number. It’s, apparently, a Q poll. No answer though. Just a number given to call if you do not wish to be polled.
Well, they have my number. Maybe they will call.
Call the number!
” Next she asked me if I was voting for SSeantor Obama the Democrat..”
MSNBC always states Obama’s name first-always.
Does the positioning of a candidate’s name influence the answer from the person being polled ?
Do the pollsters alternate the placement of the candidate’s names ?
If so-what checks are in place to insure that the pollsters are actually alternating names ?
You took in a needy child? You’re a good person.
On the other hand, I'm not dating anyone, so it figures.
Goofing on the polls is always fun. I’m often a black, union guy, with a HS degree, single, catholic, non veteran, making less than $35K ... voting for McCain.
This twist their data so much it’s worthless
Wonder if pollsters are picking African-American phone workers to intentionally skew results to Zero.
I am sure it will get counted. The question is did she key in the correct responses. SOme of these college students are such fanatics about "The One" who knows what they are actually doing.
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 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.
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.