Democratic Primaries
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Has anyone here been polled about the primaries by Democrats?
No one I know or have asked has been polled.
I would like to make my opinion known so that I could see candidates I am interested in participate in the debates.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
thesquanderer
(12,012 posts)If you want to make your preference known, you have to hope to be randomly contacted.
Sample sizes are very small compared to the total population (though enough for whatever level of statistical accuracy they profess to have, i.e. margin of error). So the odds of being polled are likewise small.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
SouthernProgressive
(1,810 posts)It's not a matter of being scientific or not. Maybe you meant to use a different word.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
thesquanderer
(12,012 posts)But as I also added in my post #8, you can volunteer to be in a pool from which respondents may be drawn. You still cannot volunteer to be in a specific poll, though, and have that poll be legitimate.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
SouthernProgressive
(1,810 posts)You actually can. Specially if it is an ongoing situation. Some really good polls do just that.
Again, it's not a mater of being scientific or not. Many really good polls use large and ongoing groups of people who initially signed up.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
wyldwolf
(43,875 posts)But not since.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
crazytown
(7,277 posts)they struck you off the list
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
wyldwolf
(43,875 posts)My wife got polled in '16.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
PDittie
(8,322 posts)and get polled on a regular basis (at least once a month).
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
brooklynite
(95,187 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Thekaspervote
(32,847 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
thesquanderer
(12,012 posts)...is here in this story about an email Tulsi Gabbard's campaign sent out:
Doug Rivers, YouGovs chief scientist, said in an email that he and his team were aware of messages like the one sent by the Gabbard campaign. But he said the companys systems made it extremely unlikely that a newly registered respondent would be surveyed in a qualifying poll. Even then, he said, there would be too few new panelists to skew the results.
A spokeswoman for Survey Monkey said it randomly selects its respondents and prevents those selected from responding multiple times.
from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/us/politics/next-democratic-debate-candidates.html
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
MineralMan
(146,365 posts)I have in previous election years, though. Never, however, have I been polled "by Democrats." I didn't know the Party did its own polling.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
highplainsdem
(49,174 posts)listed number..
Now I have only a cell phone (got tired of paying for the landline when my family and friends all called my cell), and I don't answer any calls from numbers I don't recognize. Haven't been polled since.
My guess is that's true of a lot of people here.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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