Posted on 05/10/2015 11:00:45 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
We have been vilified by the Marxists for 5 decades so who wants to tell a stranger what you think? Same thing happened in the midterm.
Pray America is waking
Leftist pollsters accurately predicting leftist election wins do not validate their models, it only validates their prejudices. Only multiple examples of their models accurately predicting wins by ideological opponents can validate their models.
SF Giants fans predicting the Giants would win the 2014 World Series before the season started does not make them brilliant baseball analysts. They got lucky.
Ditto. Long ago I stopped answering any cold-call “surveys.” You don’t have any idea who is really on the other end of the phone, nor why they really want that information. So the get immediately hung up on.
I answer the phone only if 1. I know who’s calling, and 2. I want to talk to him/her.
Robocallers seldom leave messages, BTW.
“How many guns do you own?” Nobody but nobody should ever answer that.
Yes, in UK there’s the added danger that the pollster could be a muzzie.
Goofing on pollsters is fun. I’m usually a black, union man with a hispanic surname and a HS degree
We give them absolutely no information whatsoever for any reason whatsoever
I was a female Latina with 5 kids on social programs with no degree choosing a conservative.
I don’t buy that many people are lying to pollsters
Yes, people are lying to pollsters in relatively small numbers. I'm a little playful in my responses, and I was a pollster until very recently. Far more, people are simply refusing to talk to pollsters. Talking to pollsters is becoming increasingly dangerous, and conservatives do not want to take the risk.
I get called from time to time, and I at least respond out of professional interest, even if I don't tell the truth. Gallup and Rasmussen are reasonably honest, although both have recently declined in quality (not necessarily due to lapsed integrity). Otherwise, most major polls are far more interested in maximizing revenue than they are in capturing an accurate picture of public opinion.
More than half of my polling calls have been from groups that are collecting information on the respondents as individuals more than they are collecting results to publish. Sometimes, it's just so they will know who to target in get-out-the-vote efforts, but a sensible person would not respond to such a survey. Anyone's next polling call could be collecting personal information to enforce political correctness (no different from the leftist interview that took down a pizza parlor). It's sensible not to give honest responses to the thugs on the left.
Well, obviously the answer is to have the same social pressures apply to voting as are being applied in poll questions.
If only people could be ostracized and shamed for voting in a political incorrect way, the problem would be solved.
Time to get rid of the secret ballot!
People shouldn’t be allowed to keep their bigotry hidden.
/AsALeftistWouldThink
I think it was 2004 when I got a “polling” call.
The question was phrased in such a way as to get a desired response.
I said “hey, cool! This is a push poll, isn’t it!?”
THEY hung up on ME.
you need to read between the lines in this.
They’re telling you flat out they withhold polls that show the conservative winning
And they trumpet polls thay shows the liberal winning
they’re using the polls to manipulate the results
we’ve seen this repeatedly the last 20 years
The thing about England is that its conservative resurgence is quickly replaced by more liberalism. Thatcher was able to uproot some liberalism in her eleven years.
Polls to manipulate results: it must work, considering that dozens of Philadelphia, PA, precincts voted 100 percent (not 99) Democrat against Mittens Romney.
ditto...i don’t answer the phone if i don’t know who’s on the other end
I haven’t been this stoked since your bris!!!!
It was fun!!!
You gonna go all Pol Pot on them?
Wow...just wow...
Whut ? A doctorate in fish sticks ?
ALWAYS lie to the pollsters 180o, always!
In multi-unit residential buildings (apartments, condos) I’ve noted people less often have their names on their mailboxes.
Similar trend, of not giving out personal information to strangers.
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