Here's a Question: Have you ever been called for a poll?

[AngryLizard]

Because they have to be polling someone, but I've never been called, never known anyone who's been called, and never known anyone who knew anyone who'd been called.

But obviously, they're reaching someone.

So, any poll-ees out there? CNN, Time, AP, Zogby, Rasmussen, what have you. Tell us all about it.

[NMDemDist2]

1. i asked that same question several months ago, and no, I've never

been called

[Catfight]

2. Yes, when I had a LAN line and listed in the phone book. Not since

then.

[AngryLizard]

3. What was it like?

What was it about? How many times had you been called?

[tandot]

4. No...never... n/t

[ogradda]

5. nope

don't know any one ever called either

[ncteechur]

6. the other night I was called for sort of like a dem push poll. eom

[murielm99]

7. What time do they call?

Most of us are not home during business hours, if that is when they call.

Do they call in the evening?

I recieved a polling call once, before the primaries. (I ripped shrub a new one). This was early, before March, if I recall correctly. And it was early evening.

What demographics do they call?

I figure that they don't really want to poll me, or my husband, because we are rural and in our fifties. We are probably not the important demographic.

My husband has been polled by Gallup about things that interest Nam and Nam era vets. But he has not been polled in this election cycle!

Pollsters have called here and asked for my kids. They are in the 18-25 voter age range. However, they have not been polled since 2002. They do not live at home or vote here, either.

[kcwayne]

8. Never

[AZCat]

9. I was called yesterday, as a matter of fact

I am in Tucson, AZ, and one of the television stations in the area (channel 4) had an automated poll. It asked all political questions like (paraphrased): should Bush's Nat'l Guard service matter in the election, do you consider yourself a Republican/Democrat/Independent/Other, do you think Bush is doing a good job, do you think Iraq was important, do you think we have too much/too little/just right gun control, do you think Congress should extend the soon-to-expire gun control law. Those are all the questions I can remember, but there were a few more.

I answered all the questions. The funny thing is that I couldn't tune in for the evening news (when they published the results) because I don't have a TV...

[barb162]

10. I have been called twice

First was when the ELDER Bush was going for re-election and they maybe asked 4 or 5 questions, like do I always vote, then who will you vote for, why,etc.

Second time was within the last year and it was about a ONE HOUR poll on various things on what the governor was planning to do. It went from education, roads, prisons, state income tax, taxing cigarettes versus alcohol,alcohol versus gasolene, I mean it was comprehensive as hell on every aspect of government. All questions had about 8 answers, from agree very much to agree very little. Or the questions were rate the list of 10 items from top to bottom in importance to me. That poll had to cost a mint. It was a very interesting experience.

[barb162]

12. meant to add the 2 polls I had

the first was from the RNC in Washington DC and the second was identified as a consulting firm hired by the governor's office

[Lovecrafty]

11. Never..And I've voted Democrat all my life! So I'm not included in polls!

[A Brand New World]

13. Yes in OH

I'm from West Central Ohio and was called a week and a half ago by American Research Group. They called around 6:00 p.m. on Weds. night. They were particularly interested in union influence/input once I told them my husband belongs to a union. Asked the most important issue of this election between the war in Iraq, economy, and others (can't remember them all). I told them if I could only pick one, not all, then I'd pick the war. This was my first time ever and I've been registered to vote for at least 30 years.

[NMDemDist2]

14. welcome to DU and thanks for registering to vote n/t

:hi:

[Indiana_Dem]

15. Yes I've been polled once this cycle

It was short and sweet and it was Kerry's recorded voice and asked about 3 questions. The Kerry campaign.

Last election I had a poll that took about a half hour. I hated it because it had the "never, seldom, sometimes, almost always, always" type answers. It was VERY detailed though. I would've bet it was searching for marketing/advertising strategies for whoever candidate it was for.

I've never had a poller tell me they were polling for any of the big names you listed above.

[Kimber Scott]

16. No. I do Zogby online polls, but I don't think those count, yet.

I've never been called for anything other than a movie poll. I don't know anybody who's been called. But, think, they call anywhere from 300 to 1500 people usually in a nation of how many million? It would be very odd to meet someone who'd been polled.

In any case, I think they're going to be surprised on November 2.

[grace0418]

17. Never once

I'm in the phone book, I haven't moved in years, I vote in every election so they KNOW where I am. They just don't ask me. Hmmmmmm, what a suprise.

[KharmaTrain]

18. You Need $$$ To Be Polled

When I made no money, pollsters and solicitors (other than bill collectors) couldn't give me the time of day. When I started making some money...and getting on mailing lists, that's when the calls started. The more income, the more calls...and I can almost trace how I get them.

So far this year I've been polled at least a half dozen times (the ones I bother to answer) and almost all are for special interest groups (I got one the other day from what appears to be a Pro-Israeli organization)...and all I can tell are affiliated with Democratic causes...the GOOPs long wrote off this address.

[Nana]

19. Yes..during the primaries..

once..and that's been it...

[fishwax]

20. I've been called, most recently

by an obviously biased agency (can't remember the name, unfortunately).

They started out fairly evenhanded, asking my opinion of state and national politicians ... then they got kind of bizarre, asking who will win the college football national championship/heisman trophy/go undefeated (I'm in football crazy Oklahoma) ...

But by the end the bias was obnoxious ... "would you support tort reform, keeping in mind that voting against tort reform would line the pockets of trial lawyers at the expense of thousands of Oklahomans who would lose their jobs?"

There were several questions like that, and of course I answered every question in the way I assumed the framers would find disagreeable. :evilgrin:

[lpricanprynces]

21. Once

For a t.v. station in Houston (I'm in a Dallas suburb). They called for the 2002 gubernatorial election. They asked if I was registered to vote, did I plan on voting in that election, who I was going to vote for, my age, marital status, and my ethinicity.

[soothsayer]

22. I answered the phone at my (repub) dad's house and it was a poll

Since my dad's in the hospital. It was a very pro-shrub poll, methinks, and it was short, somthing like:

do you think * is doing a good job as pres? (no)
do you support the war in iraq? (I support the troops, not the stupid illegal illfounded war)
will you vote for * for president? (hell no!)

God, it was fun!

[Shopaholic]

23. Yes, By Zogby (phone poll)

during the SC Democratic Primary. And when I was living in Charlotte, NC, a few years ago, I was part of a CBS News Poll.

[RazzleCat]

24. yep all the time

Registers voter in Missouri. Get polled about once every two weeks.

[Mr_Spock]

25. I can't be, I don't even answer my land line any more. I wonder...

if more "modern day technology" Democrats are even reachable for polling?

[napi21]

26. Yes, about 5 months ago. It was a phone call at around 6:30PM.

Quite a long phone call of about 15 to 20 mins.

[thinkingwoman]

27. not once in 39 years

and no one from either side of my family ever.