Nope, and no one that I know ever has been. Which is why I don’t trust “the polls” to accurately reflect America. Not saying that you have to be called up to be a part of it - but no one I know has been. So if that’s the case, then they’re not getting a wide demographic.
Alternate is that they show up as spam and are ignored - which again means they are heavily skewed. It means that the portion of the population who is more likely to answer a spam call is more likely to vote for X candidate. Doesn’t seem like a fair poll to me.
That was a big talking point a few years ago. Polling companies stubbornly held on to calling landlines for too long, but the only people who had landlines were not representative of the voting population.
They try to correct for things like age, income, race, etc, by weighting the answers to match the wider population, but it’s hard to correct for things like “stubbornly old-fashioned regardless of physical age.”
Nope, and no one that I know ever has been. Which is why I don’t trust “the polls” to accurately reflect America. Not saying that you have to be called up to be a part of it - but no one I know has been. So if that’s the case, then they’re not getting a wide demographic.
Alternate is that they show up as spam and are ignored - which again means they are heavily skewed. It means that the portion of the population who is more likely to answer a spam call is more likely to vote for X candidate. Doesn’t seem like a fair poll to me.
That was a big talking point a few years ago. Polling companies stubbornly held on to calling landlines for too long, but the only people who had landlines were not representative of the voting population.
They try to correct for things like age, income, race, etc, by weighting the answers to match the wider population, but it’s hard to correct for things like “stubbornly old-fashioned regardless of physical age.”
Which explains a lot, because the only person I know who still has a landline is my 80 year old grandmother