Please bare with me and answer.
I truly will love some answers
I received a phone survey today. You had a choice of what was important-Economy-War -Immigration. Than almost each question was tied to another issue. So if you were for one and not the other-you could not really pick it was marked no answer .. Example if you wanted Border Control Amnesty went with it. If you wanted to pull some out of the War, no Border control. Almost every question was like that. Is that how are voting ballets will be? Is that what our government in all partys will be doing? When I said this survey was Baloney she said she was not allowed to add to her form. Is it going to be this way this year.?
Because if it is-I'm writing my votes in with comments and they can stop the machine and read it. Would that count?
2006-06-13 17:48:08 · 6 answers · asked by *** The Earth has Hadenough*** 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Most surveys are leading. Normally they will phrase the questions so that a certain answer will be predominately picked. Such as...
Did you know some studies have shown peanut butter sandwiches can cure some diseases?
Did you know peanut butter sandwiches are a great source of nutrition?
Did you know eating peanut butter sandwiches helps the American farmer from going bankrupt?
Do you think people should eat peanut butter sandwiches?
Naturally they will release their findings saying a large number of people in America believe people should eat peanut butter sandwiches and not mention the other questions in the survey. That is why I don't put too much faith in what the surveys say.
Voting ballets are nothing like surveys. They are pretty much who do you want in position X pick one, or they are proposition so and so, yes or no. Ballets are pretty simple.
2006-06-13 20:06:35 · answer #1 · answered by JFra472449 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hence the reason when you see poll numbers in the news get out your shovel and start mucking out the stall because it's all sh...well you get the picture.
As for the write in I'm still convince that neither one of the last two presidential candidates would have been elected since the write in probable had Mickey Mouse by a large margin and politicians had to do something about that so they started this whole computer screen mumbo jumbo. Hey can you imagine 2008 write in for President, Kelly Clarkson, Bo Bice, Chris Daughtery would be the next White House cabinet. :-)
2006-06-14 04:59:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do phone surveys. They are all different, but they are done by statisticians and they are looking for specific information for specific people for specific reasons. I do not know who marketed that survey, but I would suspect that they are looking for key features of specific issues to see where those issues line up in importance to American voters.
They can be used by Democrats, Republicans or even news groups to figure out what to feature in addressing national concerns.
2006-06-14 00:59:21 · answer #3 · answered by Roseknows 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have gotten 2 of those calls in the last 6 months. I believe they are trying to get a large amount of responses in order to have their candidates tailor their comments while campaigning in public in order to slant public opinion. As you have already noticed, no one is listening to what the real issues are. Except Lou Dobbs. No. I don't think you can write on your ballot.
2006-06-14 00:59:26 · answer #4 · answered by correrafan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, i don't think they would count. don't fret so much about a silly tele-marketer i'm sure this one call that you received is gonna effect the 2008 elections.
2006-06-14 00:54:34 · answer #5 · answered by mo-z 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No,I didn't get a call.
2006-06-14 00:52:25 · answer #6 · answered by Pashur 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋