Just got polled by Marist.

[Va Lefty]

Live in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. They called on my cell phone, don't know how they got my number. Asked if NBC could call and follow up. This is a first for me, never been polled before!

[DavidL]

1. Can you tell us what was asked?

NBC and Marist work together in polling, for verification purposes, (most people have never heard of Marist, but have heard of NBC).

What did they ask? Where there more than 10 questions? Where you asked age, sex, race, and religion and family income?

[Va Lefty]

3. A lot of questions

was I registered to vote? Did I plan to vote? favorable or unfavorable ratings on the canidates. Who did I plan to vote 4. Age, sex, income,education level. Country on right track wrong track. Religion. Favorable unfavorable about tea Party. How I voted in the last election.

[DavidL]

4. Thanks! Was this a live human pollster?

I only trust polls done with less than 3% Margins of error, and live pollsters.

All others should be thrown out. There is no reasonable way to quality control someone pushing one for yes and two for no.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. Marist Uses Live Interviewers

Robocallers are prohibited by law from calling cell phone users.

[Va Lefty]

7. Yes, live pollster

[hrmjustin]

2. I got polled this year by siena polling for my congressional district here in NY.

[jimlup]

6. I can help but wonder how much polling influences elections

Seriously does it help pull the election in one direction or the other? I'm seriously curious. I guess some Poly. Science studies on it must have been done.

[WCGreen]

8. Internal poling is what moves the candidates, not the polls released by the media.

Of course they take them into consideration, but the polling they do is more extensive. They use these numbers to tweak their message...

[crash101]

9. If they won't stop, block 'em!

How they got your number, you will never know exactly. But one thing for sure, they have a lot of ways to get it.

I get calls like that from other survey centers and they're frustrating. They never stop and they call me for just about anything. So what I did was contact my telephone company and block all their numbers. That kept them from calling me again.

[titaniumsalute]

11. The more credible agencies don't "get" your number per se

They use random dialing and happen to call a cell phone.

[crash101]

10. Report them to Callercenter!

And I suggest you report their number to www.callercenter.com and raise your concern. When people read your post, they'd know about the practice of the polling center and can block their number ahead.