[EL] Political Polling

[Abigail Thernstrom]

	And I was just about to write, no one with an ounce of grey matter would complete it!  But I guess I was a bit wrong.

	Still leaves the question, though, who is behind such a gimmick and what do they hope to gain?

	Abby


Abigail Thernstrom
Vice-chair, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
Adjunct Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
www.thernstrom.com


On Mar 5, 2012, at 4:30 PM, Richard Winger wrote:

> I got the same call.  I decided to complete it, even though I had no faith that it would result in a free vacation.  But when the automatic voice asked for my party, and didn't give any option to express any party except Democratic, Republican, or "independent" (which is not a party, but a desire not to be a member of any party) I hung up.
> 
> Richard Winger
> 415-922-9779
> PO Box 470296, San Francisco Ca 94147
> 
> --- On Mon, 3/5/12, Lisa Danetz <ldanetz at demos.org> wrote:
> 
> From: Lisa Danetz <ldanetz at demos.org>
> Subject: [EL] Political Polling
> To: "Rick Hasen" <rhasen at law.uci.edu>, "law-election at uci.edu" <law-election at uci.edu>
> Date: Monday, March 5, 2012, 1:08 PM
> 
> While working from home today, I received a phone call on my house phone asking me to take a political survey and promising me a free 2-day cruise to the Bahamas if I completed it.  I took the survey but hung up rather than "push 1 to be connected to the travel expert."
>  
> This seemed to me to be a rather expensive incentive to complete a survey (unless perhaps most people hang up as I did). Is this a normal practice or used for particular types of polls?  I wondered whether it was a push poll since we have a primary in Massachusetts tomorrow.
>  
> Thanks,
> Lisa
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