Thoughts about gerrymanderings and phone polls.
Do they have something in common? When our politicians go about gerrymandering their maps, doesn't that mean they have plotted out the political geography to identify each house where a Republican, Democrat or other political designee live? And based on that information, they throw a net on the areas that will give them the best outcome. i.e. the Republicans will make safe districts for Republicans, but dilute islands of blue voters.
Are the pollster doing the same thing? They probably already have information on each phone number to know ahead of time, the political preference of the person who owns the phone. Which is to say, you can game a poll by calling the people that will give you the results you're looking for.
All in all, for as large as this country is, it feels like the system resists every effort to support diversity.
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