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Remember that comment when you see the polls on the 'Toss-up' races ... Just sayin ...
1 posted on 10/23/2018 5:55:27 PM PDT by 11th_VA
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No political signs in my yard this year. Wifey is afraid unhinged Dems will harm her horses. I do not think that fear is unfounded.


2 posted on 10/23/2018 5:58:49 PM PDT by KevinB (If I'm ever arrested, I'm switching parties.)
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Pollsters should ask who thier neighbors are voting for. That way it’s not attributed to those polled.


3 posted on 10/23/2018 5:59:50 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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It’s not just that. The right strongly dislikes and distrusts the media. This results in more hang ups and ignored calls. The call then goes to a more centrist R that is willing to talk. This shifts all opinion to the left and strongly taints the polling process.

Furthermore, many registered voter polls over poll young voters. They’re willing to talk, but very unwilling to vote. This also skews the left and makes them think they have much more voters than they actually have.


4 posted on 10/23/2018 6:00:14 PM PDT by struggle
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I don’t answer the phone when I don’t recognize the number. How many people are like me and how accurate can any poll be when this happens?


5 posted on 10/23/2018 6:00:30 PM PDT by Destroyer Sailor (Revenge is a dish best served cold.)
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Don't be shy.

Say it loud, and say it proud.


7 posted on 10/23/2018 6:01:24 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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Given the violent proclivities of our Lefty friends, being a mite circumspect about speaking to strangers on the telephone might be a wise precaution.


8 posted on 10/23/2018 6:02:16 PM PDT by Haiku Guy (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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"That tells me that a lot of those people agree with the president but just aren't going to say it out loud."

And that tells me that Obama, Soros, Globalists and the Left succeeded partially in an attempt to subjugate the country by making it an implicit if not explicit police state. Control the language and control thinking ... control thinking and that's the end of freedom.

And If they every get any real power, you know damn well they will make free speech explicitly illegal.

All speech will be 'free', but some speech will be freerer than other speech.

For now you can lie on polls and vote how you want. That would last about 12 years under a dem controlled regime, where most would suspect, probably correctly, that their votes were being entered into a database of 'good citizens.'

10 posted on 10/23/2018 6:02:59 PM PDT by tinyowl (A is A)
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It’s not socially acceptable to be a Trump supporter, especially in the Burbs. The boys at the feed store and the Coop are happy to pump up Trump, but at the Chamber of Commerce, people keep their lips zipped. They will all vote for Trump and for the GOP candidates.


11 posted on 10/23/2018 6:05:50 PM PDT by centurion316 (,)
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Silent Majority


12 posted on 10/23/2018 6:07:08 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Every time a lefty cries "racism", a Trump voter gets his wings.)
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Don’t blame them. For whatever reason, the man is universally hated. And I really don’t understand why.


13 posted on 10/23/2018 6:08:01 PM PDT by proud American in Canada
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So the news is talking about how asking for proof of citizenship is suppressing the minority vote, an article on 538 lamenting that many close house races don’t have polling data, and now an article saying that the pollsters may be oversampling democrats.

They are test-driving their explanations for blowing the election prediction, again.


14 posted on 10/23/2018 6:08:24 PM PDT by TennesseeProfessor
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I go by "DTTTFM"* which includes pollsters.

*"don't talk to the f---ing media"

16 posted on 10/23/2018 6:13:49 PM PDT by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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I don’t answer the phone if I don’t recognize the number. If I did somehow end up talking to a pollster I would lie. It’s none of their dang business.

I also wonder how many polls are taken over land line only. That skews the sample to older people - younger folks don’t pay for land lines anymore.

I have been getting polling robo calls from a certain number, which appears to be a republican organization, that calls 5-6 times in a span of 15 minutes several times a day. I’m probably going to vote republican anyway, but that’s very annoying.


20 posted on 10/23/2018 6:20:07 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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Doesn't have anything to do with people "not wanting to say it out loud", as if there is some shame to it.

They just don't see what some pissant telepollster has to do with any of their personal beliefs.

Pee-off pollster!!

29 posted on 10/23/2018 6:37:58 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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They’re not saying it at all. The surveys are private for the respondents. The truth is that their only exposure to politics is what they see on TV.


31 posted on 10/23/2018 6:41:56 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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I won’t answer polls any more or if I did, I’d lie.

They claim they are anonymous, but they have the phone number they called.

They can figure out whose it is.

They are not truly anonymous.


33 posted on 10/23/2018 6:46:53 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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As the leftists have double-downed on violence and harassment that number has even grown higher.

We need to eliminate the power of leftists to harass us. A great many of them have to be removed from corporate leadership, schools, universities, and government.


37 posted on 10/23/2018 7:12:58 PM PDT by WMarshal (America First)
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I refuse to be polled...I used to do polls, nope. Not any more...


44 posted on 10/23/2018 7:42:17 PM PDT by Tammy8
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Had a phone poll ask me to give my home address as part of the demographic information. I told them to pound sand - the best they’d ever get from me would be a zip code and that is more then enough information for demographic purposes.

I really think they are trying to figure out where everyone lives that supports our President. Course I could just be paranoid.


45 posted on 10/23/2018 7:46:44 PM PDT by reed13k
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I drove my Jeep around with a blue
ribbon to show support for or local
LEOs. I came out of Walmart and my
antenna was bent at 90 degrees with
ribbon gone. I walked around it
checking to see if the paint was keyed.
It wasn’t. I’ve removed my NRA, ARMY,
American flag, and Gadsden flag decals.


50 posted on 10/23/2018 8:51:18 PM PDT by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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