[LS]

"African-American-sounding female, calling from CT, sounded in her 20s"

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.

[Jet Jaguar]

See post 10. FWIW.

[tj21807]

I too was polled recently (last night) by Research 2000 (if I remember correctly) almost the same exact script.

Don’t mean to sound prejudiced but I believe I was polled by an African-American sounding woman as well.

She was very polite and did her job and I wished her a good evening, but I wonder if they are using a large number of African-Americans to do the polls it will really create a Bradley effect?

[muawiyah]

very close to the correct answer. What's happened is that America is now served primarily by foreign call centers. In earlier years that industry was here, could be expected to adhere to professional standards, and was a steady and reliable source of income for Americans of every kind.

Now these political poll call operations have to be set up on short notice, hire untested/unvetted people, and are easily corrupted.

Frankly the folks doing the polling are driving the answers, and too many of them want to hop in bed with Obama.