In our house, we don't pickup calls that say "Political Call" "Unknown caller" "no name" or any variant of customer, services, marketing or anything that isn't someone's name or a company we know is local.
We do not pick up, so our opinion is never counted in the know-it-all polls from Quinipiac and other groups who officiously announce what Connecticut Voters want.
I
am guessing the era of caller ID we are not alone in this foible. Frankly no one that I know picks up the phone unless they know who is on the other end. I think it's just a handful of the foolish and/or technically challenged who actually answer pollsters' calls.
I wonder if the polls are often wrong - I mean how would we know?. Of course would equal numbers of opposing view holders exist in the group that refuses to pickup or in the group that consistently answers? I think it is possible that the people MOST likely to vote are LEAST likely to pickup calls from unknown groups, and are also most unlikely to answer questions strangers pose, if they did pick up! SO - In the era of caller ID and cell phones - is the classic telephone opinion poll an acurrate measure of public opinion?
And I am so sick of hearing politicians proclaim that this or that is not what "The American People" want. As if we were all alike. As if they really knew -
Governor Malloy, you are doing a great job. Thank you. Glad I voted for you.
