It's political survey season!

[stephm0188]

Anyone else been getting phone calls?

Today's call was on behalf of Rob Portman for Ohio. I was asked if I'd be voting for Portman or Strickland.

I replied "Strickland."

"Did you know Strickland lost 350,000 jobs for Ohio?"

"I know that Portman opposes gun control, accepted almost 1.5 million in NRA contributions,  and is in favor of defunding Planned Parenthood."

"Thank you for your time."

[asdfjkl]

I wonder if Pence will call me.  Please, call me, Gov. Pence.  There is so much we have to talk about.    

[bellejar]

I live in Maryland. I doubt anyone will bother polling us.

[josieposy]

Ba ha ha ha ha!!! Score!

[penguingrrl]

I've never been polled! No fair!

[laurenpetro]

Jul 1, 2016 11:33:50 GMT -5 penguingrrl said:

I've never been polled! No fair!

seriously? I've been polled like 5 times. pollsters LOVE me because if i'm busy i'll give them a call back time.

[stephm0188]

I get a lot of calls, at least one a week.

My husband doesn't get any, which I find interesting.

[penguingrrl]

Jul 1, 2016 11:35:18 GMT -5 laurenpetro said:

Jul 1, 2016 11:33:50 GMT -5 penguingrrl said:

I've never been polled! No fair!

seriously? I've been polled like 5 times. pollsters LOVE me because if i'm busy i'll give them a call back time.

Not once! Although I think they didn't call cell phones until recently and I haven't had a land line is 12+ years.

[mbcdefg]

I don't know - we don't use our land line (I don't even know the number) and ignore any calls that we get. 

I live in New Jersey. 

[UMaineTeach]

One for Cain v Poloquin from the Cain campaign.

One from some anti abortion group and I wasn't in the mood to talk to them, so I said "anytime any reason it's ok to get an abortion" and hung up

[laurenpetro]

Jul 1, 2016 11:41:46 GMT -5 penguingrrl said:

Jul 1, 2016 11:35:18 GMT -5 laurenpetro said:

seriously? I've been polled like 5 times. pollsters LOVE me because if i'm busy i'll give them a call back time.

Not once! Although I think they didn't call cell phones until recently and I haven't had a land line is 12+ years.

oh! I still have a landline. i'm too old to give it up.

[OscarQ]

I've been cell phone only since 2000 so no, I don't get polled. Or maybe I do and I just don't answer since I screen like crazy.

I did answer a call on the day of the NJ primary thinking it was my Jersey City office calling. Nope, it was a Sanders supporter asking if I was voting for Sanders today. I let them down easy with "I haven't lived in NJ since 2002." How am I still listed as a NJ voter anywhere?

[stephm0188]

Yeah these are all via cell. No landline.

[shortstax]

I'm totally stealing your response if I get a Portman call

[redheadbaker]

I haven't gotten any of this election season, but I did get polled the year that Governor Corbett was up for reelection in PA.

[mcsangel2]

Jul 1, 2016 11:56:59 GMT -5 OscarQ said:

I did answer a call on the day of the NJ primary thinking it was my Jersey City office calling. Nope, it was a Sanders supporter asking if I was voting for Sanders today. I let them down easy with "I haven't lived in NJ since 2002." How am I still listed as a NJ voter anywhere?

I realize you were from NJ and not Brooklyn, but this reminds me of the Bernie Brouhaha the day of the primary in NJ. 250,000 missing voters or something. Bernie Bros didn't care for the answers, one of which was the polls hadn't been adequately purged for deceased and non resident voters in over 10 years.


ETA: day of NY primary, not NJ.

[elleblue]

My H got a call (cell) from the Sanders campaign a couple days before the CA primary, but nothing since. No one has called me.

[ttt]

I live in a swing state but I have a NY cell number so I never get calls

[tripleshot]

Jul 1, 2016 11:27:36 GMT -5 stephm0188 said:

Anyone else been getting phone calls?

Today's call was on behalf of Rob Portman for Ohio. I was asked if I'd be voting for Portman or Strickland.

I replied "Strickland."

"Did you know Strickland lost 350,000 jobs for Ohio?"

"I know that Portman opposes gun control, accepted almost 1.5 million in NRA contributions,  and is in favor of defunding Planned Parenthood."

"Thank you for your time."

I live in ohio but don't answer calls from odd numbers. What number did they call from? I'd answer it the same as you!

[OscarQ]

Jul 1, 2016 12:22:29 GMT -5 mcsangel2 said:

Jul 1, 2016 11:56:59 GMT -5 OscarQ said:

I did answer a call on the day of the NJ primary thinking it was my Jersey City office calling. Nope, it was a Sanders supporter asking if I was voting for Sanders today. I let them down easy with "I haven't lived in NJ since 2002." How am I still listed as a NJ voter anywhere?

I realize you were from NJ and not Brooklyn, but this reminds me of the Bernie Brouhaha the day of the primary in NJ. 250,000 missing voters or something. Bernie Bros didn't care for the answers, one of which was the polls hadn't been adequately purged for deceased and non resident voters in over 10 years.

From 2002-2008 I was a registered voter in Manhattan.  Not sure if there was stink about missing voters there too but "Pssst, Berners, I moved to DE, along with my H.  And all of our friends left the city too.  It's what many people do when they have kids cause you know we're not that loaded despite working on Wall Street."SaveSave

[Deleted]

So far I've only gotten called and asked if I could donate $200 to the Democratic Senate races.

[matildasun]

Jul 1, 2016 11:31:50 GMT -5 bellejar said:

I live in Maryland. I doubt anyone will bother polling us.

I live in Baltimore, so I got no fewer than a million phone calls during primary season, but probably won't get any now

[pitterwoo]

Jul 1, 2016 15:38:26 GMT -5 @bugginnine said:

So far I've only gotten called and asked if I could donate $200 to the Democratic Senate races.

I just got that call. I donated $10.

[EllieArroway]

Jul 1, 2016 15:38:26 GMT -5 @bugginnine said:

So far I've only gotten called and asked if I could donate $200 to the Democratic Senate races.

I get this one all the time.

[bowies]

Our landline rings constantly with surveys from conservative groups. And marketers trying to sell someone a burial plot. Methinks those things are related.

We never answer.

[meshaliuknits]

I only get calls about local stuff.

[shortcake2675]

I'm on a list for the Conservative Majority Fund, a superPAC. They don't have a number online and it's a robocall with a Trump speech where he just insulted Hillary over and over. I mistakenly left a message for the Conservative Majority, PAC. She was super kind calling back giving me all sorts of info to call and demand they take me off their list.

I listened to a poor woman read 20 minutes of statements made by Trump. I was laughing at times and made her laugh a couple too at the absurdity once I declared no I was not voting for him and no nothing she said made me want to more.

I'm still getting a few a week, but more were happening during the primary season. I answer and respond to most.

[livinitup]

Pollsters are the only reason I answer my landline. Once I answered one poll, I guess my number got on some hot list for pollsters.

I can mostly thank West Wing for my enthusiasm to represent "women age xx, living in yy" - I set policy yo!