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Study suggests 2020 polls may be missing 'shy' Trump voters
Fox News ^ | August 29, 2020 | Julia Musto

Posted on 08/29/2020 12:59:54 PM PDT by Repeal 16-17

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To: elcid1970

Yesterday I got two phone calls from “US Gallop Poll” didnt answer..let it go to voice mail..never will answer them either..dont need them knowing who Im voting for. Weirdest thing is a few days ago on my cell phone, I got a text message from “Moveon.org” they knew my name, how I have no idea, never went on their web site, Ive never been on ANY left wing web sites in my life, yet they had my name and cell phone number, they asked me for my “support” I just deleted the text, never answered back, just basically pretended like the number doesn’t exist..how the heck did they get my number that is the scary thing


21 posted on 08/29/2020 1:28:54 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Repeal 16-17
"That raises the possibility that polls understate support for President Donald Trump,"

Understates support? This has been the case for years. Review Hillary's polls up to election day for evidence.

22 posted on 08/29/2020 1:29:58 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamo nauseated. Also LGBTQxyz nauseated)
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To: cnsmom
Polls will never be correct ever again because of cell phones.

I was thinking along the lines of robo-calling. There's so much, why would anyone answer? And, there's this nagging feeling that anything you say goes into your permanent marketing record.

23 posted on 08/29/2020 1:32:55 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Repeal 16-17

Missing them? They’re dodging them!


24 posted on 08/29/2020 1:34:29 PM PDT by Buttons12
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To: Repeal 16-17

I figured that out Memorial Day 2016, sitting on the deck of my BIL’s 60 foot cabin cruiser in a bay in the fabulous part of NY suburbia when my CNN-soaked sister says, in front of all the young adults, the other brothers in law and me, a combat veteran, multi degreed college graduate and otherwise reasonably intelligent, contributing member of society, that SHE knows what MAGA really means. It means Trump wants to Make America White Again

There is nothing anyone can say in that circumstance. We don’t talk politics. We don’t interrupt a lovely afternoon after her husband just dropped a grand on Seaside lunch

There is nothing you can say to a mind numbed angry liberal

So you say nothing. I’ve said nothing for four years. I was asked once by a liberal cousin In law about my thinking on trump. I answered honestly Because I was asked honestly. Inquisitively.

But I say nothing.

Neither does anyone else with any sense. We know the truth. It doesn’t change whether people believe it or not. We’re not like the liberals

But these people have not figured this out yet? And they expect to steal an election? Hmm.


25 posted on 08/29/2020 1:35:31 PM PDT by stanne
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Don’t answer your phone unless (a) you know who’s calling and (b) you actually want to talk to them.


26 posted on 08/29/2020 1:35:33 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("Pres. Trump doesn't wear glasses. That's because he's got 2020.")
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To: alloysteel
Herself has already enjoined Slow Joe not to concede, no matter how much the vote favors Team Trump.

Remember Jill Stein and the instantly funded vote challenge in four (more or less) key states? So that "every vote could be counted."

I thought of Jill as more independent than that, but she worked the lefty line on voting, and the millions needed for the recounts and court challenges appeared like magic from many unnamed donors in a few days.

27 posted on 08/29/2020 1:36:06 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: elcid1970
Don’t answer your phone unless (a) you know who’s calling and (b) you actually want to talk to them.

Most people have adopted that policy. After all, Caller ID is free.

28 posted on 08/29/2020 1:36:56 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Repeal 16-17
The Shy Trump Voters have wrecked any legitimacy the polls may have had. Good for them.

Not only that who answers their phone to numbers they don't recognize these days? I don't. No one I know does.

If I don't know the caller I let it go to voice mail. If they don't leave a message I block the number.

29 posted on 08/29/2020 1:45:50 PM PDT by TigersEye (Wear Your Mask-Stay In Your Home-Do What You're Told-Vote Democrat)
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To: teletech

I’m one who doesn’t answer the phone unless I recognize the number-I don’t take part in surveys/polls/ etc or anything else involving ANY of my info-I also use my phone for work-I don’t have time for non-business calls unless I know the caller...


30 posted on 08/29/2020 1:52:00 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

I’m not shy at all, in fact I am rather belligerent about my political and social beliefs, to those who don’t like them I say bring it on, lets rock.

I live in far northern California, my property is an old patented mining claim, lots of deep shafts, own my own backhoe, lots of room to get rid of the trash or just let the bears and mountain lions eat it.

Surprisingly enough I have never been polled.

TRUMP 2020, 2024, 2028, etc.


31 posted on 08/29/2020 1:57:10 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: CatOwner

No one that I know-we do not tolerate interference from anyone out here-ever-and our LEOs back us up-agitators do not come to places like this-unless they want to experience a ride in a sheriff deputy’s truck that ends in a visit to a rural jail...


32 posted on 08/29/2020 1:58:03 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: 5th MEB

Next-level SSS


33 posted on 08/29/2020 2:08:11 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Pearls Before Swine

I contend caller-ID has ruined polling. I don’t answer calls not in my contacts... they can leave a message. They usually don’t. As to “shy” Trump voters... the media doesn’t find them... in truth they don’t even look for them. #NarrativeOverTruth

Wanna a real “poll”... and not one with just “900
registered voters”, but millions... guns and ammo sales.


34 posted on 08/29/2020 2:13:18 PM PDT by FiddlePig (The greatest threat to our sacred liberty is to not value it!)
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To: Repeal 16-17

If I don’t answer polling questions related to candidates, why would I answer a polling question about why I won’t answer candidate polling questions?


35 posted on 08/29/2020 2:18:41 PM PDT by CedarDave (Celebrating over 20 years as a Free Republic member and supporter.)
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To: Repeal 16-17

If I don’t answer polling questions related to candidates, why would I answer a polling question about why I won’t answer candidate polling questions?


36 posted on 08/29/2020 2:18:41 PM PDT by CedarDave (Celebrating over 20 years as a Free Republic member and supporter.)
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To: All

Both of them? Will have to win by three then.


37 posted on 08/29/2020 2:24:46 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (Pray for health, economic recovery, and justice.)
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ORANGE COUNTY — Angel San Juan is covering the President’s visit to Orange County for a briefing on Hurricane Laura’s impact and the recovery.


38 posted on 08/29/2020 2:52:21 PM PDT by deport
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To: Repeal 16-17

If they wouldn’t tell, why is this poll accurate? Why assume all of the shy Trump voters are telling these pollsters the truth?


39 posted on 08/29/2020 3:12:21 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: Raycpa

Most Trump supporters don’t bother to answer the phone and take part in the scam. caller ID.


40 posted on 08/29/2020 3:23:27 PM PDT by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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