Reply #27: OK, a phone poll (not to be confused with a "phone pole").....

[PaganPreacher]

1. Who is going to pay for this poll?

2. How do you factor in people like me, who never give out real personal information on the phone, and who make it a point to screw with pollsters and telemarketers?

3. What about unlisted phone numbers?

4. How do you confirm that the person to whom the pollster is talking was an actual voter?

5. How do you confirm that a respondent is the same person that he/she claims to be on the phone?

6. How do you discount those people who refuse to give information over the phone, for fear that your pollster could be an identity thief? (note that this is different from #1, above)

7. How do you account for those voters who don't have a telephone, or who share a phone (our nursing home residents, again)?

8. How do you separate "multiple voters in the same household" from "fraudulent registrations?"

9. How do you overcome the Wizard of Rove, telling all of the flying monkeys to lie to any pollster that calls? Your pollster might find that the Constitution Party candidate got 50% of the national vote!


Loki, the Trickster, tormented for his treachery.


The Pagan Preacher
I don't turn the other cheek.