How the hell did they do “random”? That sounds like a flat out lie. Loaded dice would be more honest.
These people are highly paid, professional reporters who have been college-educated to high ethical standards.
They simply picked random names out of the Yellow Pages at each location and interviewed the first person to pick up the phone. If they’d cherry-picked the respondents or left out divergent or contradictory opinions it would be obvious and skewed.
You can see the article is chock full of scientific polls, statistics, numbers and graphs proving their point. If it were just a jumble of anecdotes from a few selected liberals who happen to run businesses then it would look like a fake wouldn’t it?