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[PhantomSgt]

I was curious if anyone here has recieved a call from a person taking a National Poll and what were the questions?

It would also be interesting to find out what areas of the country were polled.

Geography can slant a poll in whatever direction the pollster desires. If NBC conducts a poll and asks questions of people from NY, LA or Chicago exclusively, the results would be biased against the current administration.


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Retired AF E-8

Independent that leans right of center.

[GenrXr]

I thought polls were completely BS prior to the 04' election. I could not believe that Kerry was close to Bush in votes. Then the numbers came in and there was a seperation of maybe 4 million with the highest turnout since WWII, yet the red/blue map was basically all red?

I have a feeling the polls are very unscientific and the left cheats and stuffs the ballot boxes in the districts they control.

Lets face it.

No way in hell there are as many crazies as supposedly voted for Lurch in 04'.

But then again maybe I am just delusional. I thought no way in hell would New Yorkers vote for a democrat when the terrorists are trying to get a nuke into their state to blow up Manhatten. Yet they did vote for Kerry lock step or stuffed the boxes as they have never done in the past. To this day I have trouble understanding how the left can invite their own death by an enemy they align themselves with.
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[LewWaters]

The only polling calls I've ever received were for products and services. I do answer surveys from Zogby's occassionally in email, but I also hear reports of his poll results that were not questions on polls I received.

[Schadow]

I think a clue as to the accuracy of polls is the fact that we are constantly introduced to "Democratic Pollsters" or "Republican pollsters" on talk shows. These guys know every zip code in the country and whether they're red or blue. They can easily shape results through design of questions and therefore get pretty much what their masters want.

A lot of polling is done, I'm afraid, to drive opinion rather than to assess it. It could be that pollsters like Zogby, Gallup, Harris, Marist, etc. are straight but who knows?

And no, I've never been polled on national matters.

Schadow
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[GM Strong]

The only poll I ever got was one on TV viewing. I told the pollster I don't watch much TV and she said "That's OK, we need your kind of input too." For fun I went along. At the end the pollster exclaimed "You weren't kidding when you said you don't watch much TV!" My average monthy TV viewing is between 0-1 hrs.

I did have someone call recently on what was apparently a political poll (they called it a survey) and when I told them I would not vote for John McCain, it ended. I wonder who it was for??
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[BuffaloJack]

I received a call after the last election asking if I was satisfied with the recent election process. I answered and then they asked if I believed that George Bush was lying more or less than he did before the previous presidential election. I promptly hung up. Isn't that like the old trick question, "Are you still beating your wife?" These liberals are shameless.
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[GM Strong]

[PhantomSgt]

[GM Strong]

[dusty]

Nope! Never been contacted.
Polls are BS.
As evidenced by the last election where all the major polls had Goofball ahead by a comfortable margin yet he seems to have lost by almost 4 million votes.
But boy do the news media love to quote em. Like they really mean somthing. Bad new is that a lot of the American public falls for the BS apparently.
Dusty
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[Nutso]

I have been polled a number of times over the years both locally and nationally.
For a while about 20 yrs ago I would get calls asking me questions and then a number of times I was brought in to focus groups on things such as local news, where they paid me for my time. It actually was fun sometimes.
The one I wanted I never got, it was for grad students at the time. they would be given new cars along with expenses paid to drive for a month and then do an evaluation on it. A good friend was into this until they gave him a Volvo to test - 13 yrs later he was still driiving it.
The strangest one I ever got was one where they asked my wife and I to take a national psychological test they were recertifying. It came through my college at the time. They told us that they had to give it to many tens of thousands of people to recertify the test. We agreed and showed up at another college campus to take the test.
It took us about 2 hours to take it for which we got something like 50 dollars each. What really made me mad is this group of people administering the tests had a lot of the students from this college taking the test and they would sit down and never open the test book - just race through and fill in the spots on the answer sheets as fast as they could, and no one said anything, but pay them and they would leave.
It really shows the honesty of some people.
On the up side if you are ever told you are insane - don't sweat it, they are basing it on me!!!!

[PhantomSgt]

It is surprising that not one person in this forum have said they had been contacted by Zogby, Gallop or any other of the well known "national" pollsters.

Do they call the same thousand people each time? Are the selected respondents loaded in speed dial?

Take for example if I was a pollster contracted by the DNC to gauge presidential support. The DNC asked for the result to include the President's home state of Texas.

If I limited my polling to the area around Austin I'm positive we could gather the result my client was looking for.



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Retired AF E-8

Independent that leans right of center.

[LewWaters]

Zogby surveys by email also and includes questions about your political affiliations, age, state and such, no names. I've been doing Zogby for a couple years now, but based on some results I hear, either the questions weren't asked of me or they were so skewed that I didn't recognize them.