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eggplant

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20. My rules for polling are simple.

Reply to xmas74 (Original post)

Sun Oct 26, 2014, 09:47 PM

Oct 2014

If they won't tell me who is *paying* for the poll, then fuck 'em. Above board polls will tell you who is paying for it, and then you can decide whether to participate or not.

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Just got off the phone-ABC News poll [View all] xmas74 Oct 2014 OP

No More Polls For Me otohara Oct 2014 #1

Oh, not me. xmas74 Oct 2014 #10

I like to lie to them. Mr.Bill Oct 2014 #22

The "send a message" question makes it sound like a push poll. nt pinboy3niner Oct 2014 #2

Agreed. And notice that there was only one Dem in the list of candidates? arcane1 Oct 2014 #6

I thought it sounded like one too xmas74 Oct 2014 #11

That's why I hung up on 3 of them this year. JaneyVee Oct 2014 #3

I prefer to screw with them. xmas74 Oct 2014 #13

I just had one about our gubernatorial race murielm99 Oct 2014 #4

You know what's REALLY "scary?" love my way Oct 2014 #5

We have a flat tax. murielm99 Oct 2014 #7

I didn't understand what they were talking about either. xmas74 Oct 2014 #9

That sounds like something a republican would say? BillZBubb Oct 2014 #15

Long time since I heard that song... n/t jtuck004 Oct 2014 #18

My rules of poll taking. whistler162 Oct 2014 #8

I once missed a call from Gallup pinboy3niner Oct 2014 #12

I live in a white, conservative, rural area xmas74 Oct 2014 #14

Sounds like we live in the same place!!! archiemo Oct 2014 #16

I'm in Warrensburg. xmas74 Oct 2014 #24

Do any local Straw Polls yet? Lady Freedom Returns Oct 2014 #17

As unhappy as I am with marym625 Oct 2014 #19

I had one once, in 2008. xmas74 Oct 2014 #26

My rules for polling are simple. eggplant Oct 2014 #20

I'm always leery of those poll questions that ask about "right track/wrong track." calimary Oct 2014 #21

Was it on your land line? a kennedy Oct 2014 #23

It was on my cell phone xmas74 Oct 2014 #25