WWTBAM Bored

I actually got an automated election polling call last night, my first one. I have a feeling that everyone in NH and IA was polled in December, but they don't get around Georgia that much. The pollster had a young female voice.

After saying that if I intended to vote in next week's primary I should stay on the phone, it asked me if I planned to vote in the Democratic or Republican primary. Then it gave me the choices of Hillary or Obama (statistics show that being given as the first response in a poll tends to make that selection more popular so good pollsters vary the order they give the candidates to different people; obviously I don't know if they did that). Then it asked my sex, race (white, African-American and other wre the choices), my political affiliation (Dem, Rep or other--Georgia has an open primary), age (18-29, 30-44, 45-64, 65+) and the issue I thought was most important (among the choices were Iraq, homeland secruity, education, the economy and jobs--my pick, family values, and immigration).

It seems a poll like this filters out people who don't speak English very well (there was no option for a Spanish version of the poll), and that conducting it on the night Edwards dropped out may not give the same rsults as what his supporters decide to do after thinking about it a couple of days.

silverscreenselect wrote:I actually got an automated election polling call last night, my first one. I have a feeling that everyone in NH and IA was polled in December, but they don't get around Georgia that much. The pollster had a young female voice.

After saying that if I intended to vote in next week's primary I should stay on the phone, it asked me if I planned to vote in the Democratic or Republican primary. Then it gave me the choices of Hillary or Obama (statistics show that being given as the first response in a poll tends to make that selection more popular so good pollsters vary the order they give the candidates to different people; obviously I don't know if they did that). Then it asked my sex, race (white, African-American and other wre the choices), my political affiliation (Dem, Rep or other--Georgia has an open primary), age (18-29, 30-44, 45-64, 65+) and the issue I thought was most important (among the choices were Iraq, homeland secruity, education, the economy and jobs--my pick, family values, and immigration).

It seems a poll like this filters out people who don't speak English very well (there was no option for a Spanish version of the poll), and that conducting it on the night Edwards dropped out may not give the same rsults as what his supporters decide to do after thinking about it a couple of days.

So, what did you say?

I was polled last week with exactly the same questions, but by a real person on the other end of the phone (I also live in Georgia). One difference was that Kucinich was still an option, although my pollster had the darndest time pronouncing his name. We're seeing some political ads on the Atlanta television market, but they are not overwhelming the airwaves (yet).

bazodee wrote:We're seeing some political ads on the Atlanta television market, but they are not overwhelming the airwaves (yet).

I saw one for Hillary during WWTBAM last night.

Only junk call wasn't campaign-related. My PBS station asked if I wanted to make a special donation to their Members Challenge campaign, to match the donations of new contributors. I didn't.

silverscreenselect wrote:I actually got an automated election polling call last night, my first one. I have a feeling that everyone in NH and IA was polled in December, but they don't get around Georgia that much. The pollster had a young female voice.

. . .Then it asked my sex, race (white, African-American and other wre the choices), my political affiliation (Dem, Rep or other--Georgia has an open primary), age (18-29, 30-44, 45-64, 65+) and the issue I thought was most important (among the choices were Iraq, homeland secruity, education, the economy and jobs--my pick, family values, and immigration).

Triple-S, you sly ol' dog!

After all of that blather against Obama and talking up Hillary, you actually are a Huckabee supporter.