Have you ever been polled by Gallup or Zogby or any other poll???

[Demonaut]

I'm curious who's been polled due to the huge discrepancy in the MSNBC poll comparing Newsweek's poll. I've never been polled.

[Silverhair]

1. Yes, Rasmusean poll (sp) in 2000. n/t

[Sir_Shrek]

2. I think Gallup got me...

...several years ago.

[montanacowboy]

3. No, Never

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[Q3JR4]

4. I haven't.

:shrug:

[Gloria]

5. No, but I worked for Gallup when it was really Gallup.....

before being sold to a big corp.

[Demonaut]

8. Do you mean to say Gallup is suspect?

Who now owns Gallup?

[SharonAnn]

6. Yes, Zogby

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[caledesi]

28. Zogby. eom

[creativelcro]

7. Never

[CMT]

9. yes

Badger poll earlier this year in Wisconsin.

[catmandu57]

11. No

I'm a registered democrat, I wouldn't give the answers they're looking for.

[ikojo]

10. Yes, I was polled by a company working for Lacy Clay

the son of William Clay. I was fine with the questioning until they disparaged one of the candidates in the primary for not having a college education. The pollster asked me if the opponent's lack of a college degree would cause me not to vote for him.
My response was that Lacy (called LAZY here in St Louis) Clay grew up with more advantages than his opponent and thus had greater access and opportunity for a college education. I also said it was classist of Clay to even have such a question in his polling.

I also told the pollster that I got the feeling that Lazy Clay expected the congressional seat just because his daddy had it before him and that I didn't like the sense of entitlement.

I then voted for Clay's opponent in the primary. Clay won of course because his daddy was the previous occupant of the seat and he has HUGE name recognition, even if North St Louis is worse off after all those years of Clay representation.

To this day I will either vote for Clay's opposition (if he/she is a Green) or not vote for that position at all if the only opposition is a pug.

[Atman]

12. Quinnipiac (yeah, like I can spell it)

Just last week. They called at dinner time, of course. They wanted to know all about CT governor Rowland and the Republican party. I let 'em have it!

The results were in the newspaper the next day!

[Bandit]

13. I am on Zogby's list and every time they have a new poll I get notified

It is done by computer so probably not the most accurate of polls but almost every month I participate in their polls.

[alfredo]

14. I do the Harris poll on a wide range of issues.

You can sign up at their site.

[ClintonTyree]

15. I used to...............

until I moved, then I guess I didn't fit their demographic anymore. I too was polled by Zogby via internet.

[hey2370]

16. My wife got Zogby-ed

She won't quit talking about it.

"What, you have never been polled? Maybe you will pick up the phone next time instead of making me get it."

She was tough on bush, though. Even asked if there was something worse than "very poor" for performance.

[HawkerHurricane]

17. 1998

I was polled repeatedly from a week before the primary until the general election.
It got fun, listening to the same question phrased in different ways once a week for 6 months.

[tom_paine]

18. Never

[Blitz]

19. I was very recently polled

Re: the San Francisco Mayoral contest.

[TexasPatriot]

20. i was polled by Gallup 4 years ago

at least she said she was from Gallup
took about 45 minutes to answer all their questions - lots of questions on current events (felt like a quiz...) but it was fun (i liked giving the girl more complete answers than her questions).

Dont know how it helps figuring out the difference tween polls though.

[seaglass]

21. I was polled last week on gay marriage in MA.

And push-polled by the candidate running against Marty Meehan in the last election.

It doesn't take a very large sample to get accurate results if the sample is random.

[dave29]

22. never

ever

[9119495]

23. Yes, by all of them...but then I live in Iowa

[alarcojon]

24. I've been polled

All polls have statistical margins of error. I haven't seen the poll you describe, but when the margin of error is accounted for, is there still a large discrepancy?

[Butterflies]

25. No

I'm in Virginia.

[SteveG]

26. numerous times by numerous companies

Gallop several times, most recently for the upcoming DE Governors race.

A number of Candidate polling companies over the years as well.

[ieoeja]

27. Gallup (and Nielsen)

Coincidentally I got another call from Nielsen just last night. But put them off because I was busy.