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H2O Man

(75,089 posts)
Thu Oct 17, 2024, 08:48 PM 4 hrs ago

Poll/ Survey

Hello:

Today I would like to take what some might call a poll, and others a survey. As always when I attempt to do so, there is no "right" or "wrong" answer.

1: do you trust the polling being reported on the Harris vs felon contest?

2: Have you been called to answer questions about who you plan to vote for in the upcoming elections (including Senate, House, and/or local elections?

3: If so, were you called on a land line or cell phone?

4: Approximately how many people do you know that have been called to take a poll?

5: Have you voted yet?

Thank you to any/all that respond.
H2O Man

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Poll/ Survey (Original Post) H2O Man 4 hrs ago OP
No one calls me, but I haven't had a land line in 15 years. Dennis Donovan 4 hrs ago #1
My responses NewHendoLib 4 hrs ago #5
1) No SomedayKindaLove 4 hrs ago #2
I trust the voting, not the polling. OAITW r.2.0 4 hrs ago #3
Most importantly: yes I have already voted megapuzzler 4 hrs ago #4
No. Wuddles440 4 hrs ago #6
Hello there ! Coexist 4 hrs ago #7
Live in a dark blue state.. we don't get calls about the Presidential election. BlueWaveNeverEnd 4 hrs ago #8
OK, here goes. lees1975 4 hrs ago #9
... SheltieLover 4 hrs ago #10
I was called rogerashton 4 hrs ago #11
I've not been polled and know no one who has, but surfered 4 hrs ago #12
1- no dweller 4 hrs ago #13
no no x no no spanone 4 hrs ago #14
Hello! onecaliberal 4 hrs ago #15
Here: Tikki 4 hrs ago #16
Polling northoftheborder 3 hrs ago #17
1. I don't trust most polls (& the rest I don't think mean much without trends). hlthe2b 3 hrs ago #18
YES grobertj 3 hrs ago #19
1. NO Xoan 3 hrs ago #20
For me... 2naSalit 3 hrs ago #21
Poll answers La Coliniere 2 hrs ago #22
Here are my responses: Stinky The Clown 2 hrs ago #23
My answers: Polybius 1 hr ago #24

Dennis Donovan

(23,840 posts)
1. No one calls me, but I haven't had a land line in 15 years.
Thu Oct 17, 2024, 08:54 PM
4 hrs ago

1: do you trust the polling being reported on the Harris vs felon contest?
-No.

2: Have you been called to answer questions about who you plan to vote for in the upcoming elections (including Senate, House, and/or local elections?
-No

3: If so, were you called on a land line or cell phone?
n/a

4: Approximately how many people do you know that have been called to take a poll?
-Maybe five?

5: Have you voted yet?
-Not yet but check my vote status weekly

NewHendoLib

(60,399 posts)
5. My responses
Thu Oct 17, 2024, 08:58 PM
4 hrs ago

1: do you trust the polling being reported on the Harris vs felon contest? No.

2: Have you been called to answer questions about who you plan to vote for in the upcoming elections (including Senate, House, and/or local elections? No.

3: If so, were you called on a land line or cell phone? We don't have a landline and don't answer calls from any number we don't know

4: Approximately how many people do you know that have been called to take a poll? None

5: Have you voted yet? Not yet - will do early voting in NC next week

OAITW r.2.0

(27,826 posts)
3. I trust the voting, not the polling.
Thu Oct 17, 2024, 08:57 PM
4 hrs ago

I don't think pollsters can any longer predict the vote because they can no longer connect to a representative sample of all of the potential voters. Landline phones, at one time, gave them a good indicator of voter sentiment, but they no longer have a good handle on who is voting and why they are voting.

megapuzzler

(523 posts)
4. Most importantly: yes I have already voted
Thu Oct 17, 2024, 08:57 PM
4 hrs ago

I'm in Illinois and did early voting last Tuesday (October 8).

1. No, I don't trust the polls, as they seem to be increasingly unreliable. I'm counting on Allan Lichtman's analysis, which predicts a Harris win.

2 &3. No calls here, either via landline or cell.

4. I know no one who has been called

5. Can't say it enough -- yes, I've already voted

Coexist

(25,688 posts)
7. Hello there !
Thu Oct 17, 2024, 08:59 PM
4 hrs ago

1: do you trust the polling being reported on the Harris vs felon contest? - I do - I believe it's a true snapshot of the people they've spoken to/surveyed. I think a better question for me is, did they choose the people with an agenda, and are they taking into account and oversampling women to match the 2022 (post-Dobbs) trend with the stronger female turnout (batting down abortion laws in red states), over the 2020 election?

2: Have you been called to answer questions about who you plan to vote for in the upcoming elections (including Senate, House, and/or local elections? Never. and I am *such* a likely voter

3: If so, were you called on a land line or cell phone? N/A

4: Approximately how many people do you know that have been called to take a poll? Just a few that have mentioned in on DU, none in real life

5: Have you voted yet? Hell yes, I have!

lees1975

(5,482 posts)
9. OK, here goes.
Thu Oct 17, 2024, 09:00 PM
4 hrs ago

1. No, I do not trust the polls at all.
2. I have not been called. I've participated in a couple of YouGov polls online.
3. I do not have a land line, only a cell phone.
4. Our early voting starts October 21 and I will vote then.

surfered

(2,330 posts)
12. I've not been polled and know no one who has, but
Thu Oct 17, 2024, 09:09 PM
4 hrs ago

I live in a red state where early voting begins Oct 21. Actually we’re lucky the GOP controlled state let’s us vote at all.

northoftheborder

(7,597 posts)
17. Polling
Thu Oct 17, 2024, 09:25 PM
3 hrs ago

I have not been polled nor has anyone else I know of. I’m suspicious of the national polls. I have already voted for all Democrats on the ballot. Cautiously optimistic.

hlthe2b

(105,662 posts)
18. 1. I don't trust most polls (& the rest I don't think mean much without trends).
Thu Oct 17, 2024, 09:36 PM
3 hrs ago

2. I don't answer numbers I don't recognize so I suspect I do get calls for polls but without a caller id, I don't answer. I truly think that is the biggest fallacy for polling methods today;

However, I DO online YOUGOV polls most weeks although the ones I get are often not political. I do have some trust in them because they have an ENORMOUS number of US and worldwide subjects enrolled and with screenable information to ensure random and representative sampling. That is why you are seeing them work more with other pollsters. ALL online. All by invitation only.

5. Yes, I submitted my mailed ballot (thank YOU, Colorado, you wonderful state for your sane voting policies) to a secured drop-off point (with cameras) which is picked up daily by members of both parties working in concert.

grobertj

(194 posts)
19. YES
Thu Oct 17, 2024, 09:40 PM
3 hrs ago

In Greensboro, NC. I waited for 45 minutes. Longest I’ve ever waited here. There were a disproportionate number of women.🤞🤞

2naSalit

(91,538 posts)
21. For me...
Thu Oct 17, 2024, 09:58 PM
3 hrs ago

1. I don't trust the polls, haven't for a long time.

2. Stopped answering calls from unknown numbers months ago, so no.

3. Don't have a land line.

4. Three.

5. I sure have, yesterday.

Stinky The Clown

(68,368 posts)
23. Here are my responses:
Thu Oct 17, 2024, 11:17 PM
2 hrs ago

1: do you trust the polling being reported on the Harris vs felon contest?
Mostly, no. Too much "adjusting" to compensate for this or that.

2: Have you been called to answer questions about who you plan to vote for in the upcoming elections (including Senate, House, and/or local elections?
No

3: If so, were you called on a land line or cell phone?
n/a

4: Approximately how many people do you know that have been called to take a poll?
No one

5: Have you voted yet?
No. Early voting here starts this weekend. We are going on Saturday. We go with another couple and a single woman (widow who lost her wife a few years ago). We always go to vote and then out to dinner.afterwards. We will be straight Dx5




Polybius

(17,152 posts)
24. My answers:
Fri Oct 18, 2024, 12:02 AM
1 hr ago

1: Not the partisan ones, but I trust the mainstream ones. Still, I feel they could be off.
2: No, but I've been texted.
3: N/A
4: Not sure, I never ask.
5: No, I vote in person on Election Day. I want to see for myself the turnout. Plus I'm one of the few here who don't like early voting.

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