I bet if polling companies texted people instead of calling them

[BWdem4life]

They'd get a lot more responses from people younger than 60.

[LakeArenal]

1. Sure but do they really want to? I think they like their poll manipulation just fine.

[iemanja]

5. I doubt it

With so many polls off from the actual election results, that's not good for pollsters. They have no interest in putting out bad polls since their livelihood depends on accuracy.

[getagrip_already]

11. that isn't really true....

They put out polls their customers like at a cost they can afford. You aren't their customer. The big media outlets are.

The polls are meant to be used during MSM broadcasts, and neither side cares if they wind up being wrong, as long as they are close, and that is easy to do; you just say one side is up but within the margin of error.

[iemanja]

12. Do you agree with the other poster

that they are deliberately wrong?

[getagrip_already]

14. deliberately? no, casually not caring, yes......

Some pollsters do have an agenda and they do skew their polls intentionally (rasmussen for one), but most just throw the darts and then adjust to make the results plausible.

Campaign polling is completely different. They do want accurate data, and it usually done door to door, and you don't get to see the results.

[brooklynite]

21. Any actual evidence?

You realize that many major polling units are academic, not "corporate" media?

https://poll.qu.edu

https://scri.siena.edu

https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/

[Sympthsical]

2. They do text

Source: I get them.

They're only marginally less annoying than Natasha pretending she texted the wrong number but somehow still wants to get to know me. Joke's on you, Natasha. I'm only into other moose!

[Jerry2144]

6. And I want the squirrel

[Mr.Bill]

3. In this phase in the election cycle,

all the broadcast news networks want every race to look close to keep you watching the news. This week I started hearing the words "dead heat" several times. It will increase in frequency as we approach election day.

[Jerry2144]

4. I get gobs of survey texts

And I just delete and report junk on them all. If they texted, they probably still wouldn’t get many responses.

In my younger days, I used to answer those phone surveys and roll a die or flip a coin for answers to the survey. I just want them to leave me alone and not bug me. This is why polls are not trustworthy. Not representative samples and unknown truthfulness on the responses

[brush]

7. Would that make much difference than calling cell phones?

[Qutzupalotl]

8. I think so.

My phone automatically declines unknown numbers but texts go through just fine.

[Meadowoak]

9. maybe, I would probably respond to a text msg. otherwise I would just ignore a call

from an unknown number.

[SalamanderSleeps]

10. brush unless your name pops up I'm not answering.

Point being; land lines are dead and nobody answers their phone on the first bounce anymore.

Perhaps, the pollsters should get off their a asses and actually go talk to people.


truth is hard

[brush]

15. So who are they getting responses from if land lines are dead...

as you say, and they don't text and no one answers cell phones if they don't recognize the number/or the name?

[SalamanderSleeps]

16. Very, very, tiny, AM radio listeners.

"Ya Know, morons."

[WhiskeyGrinder]

13. I doubt this very much.

[ColinC]

17. For me, spam texts go to a spam box. Unknown calls go to voicemail.

That's common these days, and privacy issues might be a main part of why polls are continuing to be wronger and wronger as technology quickly changes.

[iemanja]

18. I just now got one

and answered. It was for my state's Atty General race.

[doc03]

19. I so a Civics email poll about every week. nt

[doc03]

20. I do a Civics email poll about every week. nt