[EL] Political Polling

[Lillie Coney]

Election data related to voters is valuable this year
--Big Data and Election 2012. 

It could be an effort to collect fresh data on voters
to sell to campaigns as new profile information. 
Political polling will be interesting this election year,
because the means of judging voter sentiments might
move to secondary or tertiary activity such as who 
are your social networking contacts, who you receive
g-mail messages from or how often you or a family
member goes for a doctor's visit over the last year. 

My question is whether the offer of a cruise was 
real--if it is not that might place the activity outside 
of the protection of the do-not-call election activity 
exception or the robo call political activity exception.

Lillie Coney
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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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