“You have to wonder what the 10% response rate does to the final product. “
Well, ponder this, then. I mentioned to a conservative business-owner friend of mine that I totally dodge all political and polling calls, and he said he did the same thing. So we briefly discussed if this might be a trend among conservatives in general, and we thought that might be possible. And then he added that in conversations with some of he liberals he has to deal with that they made a point of exclaiming how eager they were to make their opinions known to the pollsters. So, now you may have a trend of conservatives dodging the pollsters and the liberals eagerly taking their calls. It really makes you wonder how accurate some of these polls really are.
FWIW, I hang up on pollsters, as does my husband. I trust them as much as the MSM.
The intolerant left highlighted the danger to conservatives of expressing their opinions in public with the vendetta against Chick Filet and Dan Cathy—elected officials using government power. It’s so easy to audit a tax return (I had a spurious request for documentation of a deduction I’d been taking for years in ‘09). As far back as ‘00, my post office delivered my National Review with a picture of the newly elected Bush on the cover with an almost surgically precise razor slash through his face . I’d never had a magazine with that kind of marring delivered before or since—just another permutation of “going postal” I suppose.