Me dino blows my nose at all polls and most especially at any percentile claim for a margin for error. It's all humbug to me. Humbug!

Lies, damn lies and statistics...

I love my caller ID. I take a look and press off the ringer for majority of my calls.
I never say "Hello" to anything that looks political. "Anonymous" or "Name Unknown?" Forget it!

I got a call from a purported poll. "How are you going to vote?" I answered, "By secret ballot."

Yes, but the polls serve as a very useful psychological tool in manipulating voters. When people hear that the polls have so-and-so up by a significant margin, many voters simply stay home because they conclude that their vote won't matter. What they forget is that even if their vote wouldn't have changed the Presidential race, there are always a lot more positions up for grabs than just the President's. Their non-vote means that other candidates down-ticket also lose.

Personally, I don't think there should be polls. They're a lot like college football rankings - which get decided pretty much in the pre-season rather than on the field.

I have written many polls over the years. They can be rigged to get whatever answer you want the outcome to be. Based on demographics, what the questions are and how they are worded. The time when you take the polls just to name a few. Demographics seem to be suspect in the presidential polls. A lot of them seem to be over sampled with democrats up to 9% over sampled. That can skew any poll in favor of Clinton.

Living in Nevada means the same thing. Most of them are robo-calls or phony "surveys".

Living in Florida means that I am inundated with political phone calls.

I generally don't respond to telephone polls. They want too much personal information, and there's no way to tell whether they are legitimate pollsters or just seeking to acquire marketing information.

The real bias in polling is that the polling data only includes people who actually respond. I am quite sure that thinking individuals are going to have a much lower tolerance for political propaganda than non-thinking Democrat voters. Do any of you actually take one of these telephone polls?