For the first time in my 67 years, someone actually cares what I think. I guess I’m lucky to live in a “battleground” state. It took maybe 10-15 minutes, and they basically wanted to know who I’m leaning toward in the election (national and state), and how heavily and consistently I’m leaning, and how likely I am to actually vote. I wish they had asked about some specific issues, though.
Best question: “Press #4 if you have never heard of Barack Obama.”
I would have followed that up with: “Press #5 if you can’t find the #4 button.”
Interesting!
Did they call you on a cell phone or land line?
Did they identify which polling organization?
Were the questions clear and concise?
One problem I see with an automated series of questions is that they have no idea if you are 15 years old, if you are registered to vote, if you are even legal to vote or perhaps you were picking up grandma’s phone and answering questions they thought were directed to an elderly Republican woman or whatever.
Land line. And there were questions concerning my age, sex, registration, intention of voting, party affiliation, etc. So it didn’t matter whose phone it was, he was addressing ME. Sure, I could have lied about everything, but I think my honest answers would count for more. It was obviously recorded, but the questions were clear and concise, and the guy had a nice professional-sounding voice. He may have mentioned the polling organization at the beginning, I don’t remember.
Were you extremely honest, very honest, somewhat honest, or not at all honest? Now, on a scale of 1 to 5, where 5 means extremely honest and 1 means not at all honest…and finally, for statistical purposes only, what is the total income in your household?
I got polled a couple of weeks ago. I thought it was a bit weird as I live in Alabama, where Romney has a 100% chance of winning according to the 538 blog. As a 35 year old college educated male liberal, I joked to my wife that my responses may skew the results a bit.
I forget who was conductiong the poll, but it was a live person and they asked whether they reached me on a cell phone or land line (leading me to believe they use both). FTR it was a land line (though provided by the local cable company rather than by AT&T).
I keep getting push polled (is that what it’s called?). The call, say they want to ask me my opinion but it is all bullshit. Basically, they ask questions like “Are you very likely, somewhat likely, don’t know, somewhat unlikely, or very unlikely to vote for Barack Obama given the fact he is a Muslim socialist African Usurper with 666 branded on his scalp?” They follow this up with “In 2010 Barack Obama killed a puppy, does this fact make you more likely, somewhat more likely…”
You get the idea. I participated in two of these before figuring out it was all a bunch of crap and was basically just a ten minute advertisement where they were trying to get in all the sound bites. They didn’t give a shit what my actual opinion was. I communicated this epiphany to my wife and she replied “duh”; she had been hanging up on them for several days. We are in Colorado for what it is worth.
I was polled for a primary on which of 4 Rep. candidates I wanted - “none of the above” was not an option. I had to settle for “undecided.” Another poll asked if I liked the way things are going. I assume that a "no would have been a criticism of Obama; but my “no” would have meant “there are too many Republicans in positions of power.” So I didn’t answer.
Not to hijack (much) but the thread directly above this one is about the guy pretending to be gay for a year…followed directly by a person saying they had been polled…:eek: