Have you been polled? Has anyone you know been polled?

[Bob Munck]

28. YES! Many, many times.

We lived in the Virginia suburbs of DC 1989-2016. During that time, we would get maybe half a dozen pollster calls during every election cycle. Half of them were pretty obviously "push-polls," designed to evoke a particular response and maybe even change our minds a bit. After a while I began to play with the pollster, telling him what he wanted to hear and then suddenly going on a wild rant saying just the opposite. It doesn't stop them calling, but I enjoy doing the ranting.

Before that, we lived in the Boston suburbs 1973-1989 and it was true there too, but maybe not quite as often. We became aware early on that the people around us in either area weren't getting polled at the same rate as we were.

Since 2016 we've lived in the Charlotte NC suburbs, up on Lake Norman. We're still getting polling calls, but have lately stopped answering the landline (I'm 75; we're required to have a landline.) and wait to see the transcript that the voice mail emails us. Pollsters don't wait for voice mail.

We haven't a clue why we would have been singled out. We're both just ordinary computer techies, degrees in CS from a good Ivy and a fair amount of government contracting work, mostly DoD, but most of our friends can say the same and they're not getting called. I haven't even been mentioned in the news since I made all-state in high school football. My wife was when she set some weight-lifting records, but that was fairly recent. We do contribute to Democrats, but the push-polls have been uniformly right-wing.