Who gets polled? Who are the participants in political research studies?
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Anonymous
| Just curious. I have never been asked to be in a poll. Do they call you? |
Anonymous
| Yes, they call you. And yes, they call cell phones. I have a small business so I answer unknown numbers that call my cell phone, so I’ve been polled several times. More often industry stuff, like “how many brands of x have you heard of? And how do you feel about these brands?” But political polls too. |
Anonymous
| Do you live in MD or DC? I live in VA and get call after call, especially around elections. I used to live in a very blue state and never got called, foregone conclusion, I think. |
Anonymous
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I still have a landline (I’m 40) and they call that, yes. I get a flurry of calls sometimes and other times none (like three in one week during election season and then none in the same election season for a month or two).
The only people who have totally stopped calling is the Republican Party pollsters. They didn’t like that I didn’t answer their push poll questions the way they wanted, I guess. |