I've voted in every election I've been eligible for (back to 2008) and have never once been polled, and I don't know anyone who has.
With the discussion about sampling schemes in polls, I'm curious how many people in the Spin Room have been polled in presidential elections years.
(10-02-2020 02:17 PM)EigenEagle Wrote: [ -> ]I've voted in every election I've been eligible for (back to 2008) and have never once been polled, and I don't know anyone who has.
With the discussing about sampling schemes in polls, I'm curious how many people in the Spin Room have been polled in presidential elections years.
Negative Ghost Rider.
This will be my 11th Presidential campaign. Never once have I been called about about any race in California, Indiana or Kentucky.
To clarify, I get a call once or twice every cycle. But I don't take the quiz. I just politely tell them I don't have time.
Never in a presidential election. Think I was called once on local elections 10-15 years ago.
(10-02-2020 02:30 PM)Redwingtom Wrote: [ -> ]To clarify, I get a call once or twice every cycle. But I don't take the quiz. I just politely tell them I don't have time.
Same here although I'm not always as nice. This poll needs a choice for those of us who never respond to polls.
I've received two polls this year via text messages, never had a phone call or any other form of polling before for any election (first eligible in 2000).
The polls I received only had options for Biden or Trump, not including any of the other candidates, and not giving options on how to select them (Reply 1 for Trump, 2 for Biden, 3 for undecided, 4 to opt out) - In both polls I just replied with Jorgensen instead of a numeric response, and neither one then responded to confirm it or anything.
(10-02-2020 02:44 PM)Siborg Wrote: [ -> ] (10-02-2020 02:30 PM)Redwingtom Wrote: [ -> ]To clarify, I get a call once or twice every cycle. But I don't take the quiz. I just politely tell them I don't have time.
Same here although I'm not always as nice. This poll needs a choice for those of us who never respond to polls.
Good point. If I don't know the number, then I don't pick up. They'll leave a message if it's important and then I'll determine myself if the message actually is important.
Never have and never would provide my opinion to stranger (if they have my personal info) unless they knock on door. Happened with Bernie in '16. I was hungover and didn't think they wanted my opinion so just said keep it moving. They were shocked (college campus in a liberal city) and I politely closed the door when they kept talking about the Bern and how he'd be great. I have a soft spot in my heart for the Mormon recruiters that go around state university college campuses.
Not via phone but via an online survey. Almost daily.
I do lots of online surveys and after I enter my geographic data, I often get political surveys, sometimes from yougov. Not sure if they a considered a pollster or not, or if their data just gets into some other poll.
Never sure how to answer. Not sure if I should reveal it all to them or confuse them a bit? Any thoughts? My fear is giving them data that will actually hurt my cause lol.
Not matter who the survey is from, the questions are pretty much identical.
Who I support
Who I have supported in the past
Age, race, kids, marital status, location
Religion--evangelical or not
Union membership
Gun ownership
Do I have a home phone or not
These are alk typical questions outside of candidate specifics
(10-02-2020 02:17 PM)EigenEagle Wrote: [ -> ]I've voted in every election I've been eligible for (back to 2008) and have never once been polled, and I don't know anyone who has.
With the discussion about sampling schemes in polls, I'm curious how many people in the Spin Room have been polled in presidential elections years.
I've been registered and voting since 1968, and I have never been polled.
But the odds are slim, anyway, as most polls only cover a few hundred people.
Been registered since 1966 and have voted with every opportunity. Never polled. Truth to be told I would lie to any pollster if they ever called.
Was once questioned for 30 minutes by Larry Sabato`s group at UVA about my vote in a Virginia Governors race. This was about 3 weeks after the election.
About once an election cycle since Obama rnd 1
Never online, never in person and good luck to them getting me to answer my phone.
I once picked up my land line and there was a poller on the other end....
Felt bad for him, so I answered the questions. I thought it was only for president but there were many policy questions and took 25 freakin minutes.
That was ~12 years ago, and I've never answered my land line since.
Spam mail on one of my email accounts says it's a poll, but I never click. shrug
My mother (in Memphis) got polled often, like every few months. When she died a couple years back, they erected a monument to her.
ok... so they didn't. But they should've. lol
I’m beginning to see a pattern in the responses here. Those with a liberal lean seem to be contacted more by pollsters than those with conservative views. Matches the national trend with polls asking liberals their opinions more often than conservatives.