Over the last two months, the Robo-polling calls have been ramping up. Now, I’m getting anywhere from 5 to 8 calls a day. I used to answer them and I used to give truthful answers. I’d point out to the poor schlub at the other end of the call how badly worded the questions were.
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That the “funneling” answers that were presented were out to manufacture a given outcome. Or I’d pull them into a political back and forth about the questions and the answers; that they didn’t represent the actual issues.
It used to be fair amusement. No longer.
The questions have devolved into push-polls, depending on the pollster. Some of the phone folks became combative when I gave my real answers instead of one of theirs as it became clear I “wasn’t of their persuasion.” Or their remarks after giving my answers showed a bit of disdain as in “crap, I have to talk to ANOTHER one of ‘these people’?”
And, to be truthful, I don’t want to aid the MSM in their polling just so that they can write another article that politically whips my beliefs. The MSM is just going to twist it anyways.
Screw that. I’m with these guys (reformatted, emphasis mine):
Many Trump voters staying silent again, duping media and pollsters
Just like in 2016, many of President Trump’s strongest supporters are staying quiet about their Election Day pick, likely misleading pollsters and the media about the state of the presidential race. In the latest Rasmussen Reports survey of the silent supporters, the pollster said, “Trump voters appear to be hiding their vote again this election cycle.” The report said that 17% of likely voters who “strongly approve” of Trump “are less likely to let others know how they intend to vote in the upcoming election.”
In 2016, when Trump was under attack in the media, and especially after then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said his supporters belonged in a “basket of deplorables,” many also stayed quiet about supporting Trump. That likely led some pollsters to get the race wrong and played a role in the media blowing it, too. Rasmussen Reports said it made adjustments in its formula and, in the end, got the percentage of Clinton’s popular vote nearly perfect, a point it bragged on in its new analysis.
“At this time in the 2016 election cycle with Trump already being regularly bashed by the media, Republicans were similarly less forthcoming about how they intended to vote, and pollsters, with the exception of Rasmussen Reports and a couple others, completely missed Trump’s surprise victory,” the report said.
Which reminds me. I have to get that Trump sign out of the truck and stick it into the ground. Should annoy the heck out of Jim Babcock.
But I’m not going to tell any pollster that.
