What would it take to create an independent grassroots polling business?

[Lodestar]

I don't trust the polls and wonder if it would be feasible to create a polling service
as a workaround. Or perhaps more than one?

[RichVRichV]

1. Money. And at least one statician. And money.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. One correction... LOTS of money

[msongs]

3. it's free to poll various internet candidate forums. or they will respond to your poll too nt

[Lodestar]

6. That or some other clever way to piggyback on existing technology

rather than reinvent the wheel or start from scratch. And as Bernie
has proven, money isn't necessarily the obstable you might think.
For instance, perhaps a political 'kickstarter' type of thing...

[SheilaT]

4. Yep. Lots of money.

And someone who fully understands statistics and polling.

Plus, lots of money.

[mythology]

5. Just save yourself the trouble and unskew the polls yourself

It worked out so well for the guys supporting Romney in 2012. Just because you don't like what the polling says, doesn't make it wrong.

[joshcryer]

7. That's what PPP was when they started, no?

You could do it in theory yourself, just set up an Amazon Turk account and grab a Qualtrics polling account.

[jfern]

8. If Overtime Politics is real, they just do some random digit dialing on the cheap

And do simple tabulations. No weighting, not too many questions.