"But who answers when a stranger is calling? Old people."

[Demovictory9]

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[True Blue American]

1. True

And now with Caller ID even smart older people do not answer!

[whistler162]

2. Or we answer and just let it sit till

they hang up.

[Demsrule86]

8. Hubs answers 'did you hide the body'? They hangup.

[sunonmars]

3. I ignore every number i don't know. Poll methods are becoming so outdated.

[Dave Starsky]

4. I haven't talked to a pollster or salesperson in DECADES.

Which is as long as I've used caller ID and answering machines.

And now with call blocking, I'm not even aware they even tried.

They are still running polls like it's 1955.

[Vinca]

5. That's why the polls are almost meaningless. Pollsters are easy to ignore.

The numbers already voting and the interest of young people make me think this will be a blue tsunami.

[blueinredohio]

6. That's what I said. I never answer unless I know the number.

And if I don't recognize the number I block it.

[ProfessorGAC]

7. If On Land Line. . .

. . .i see the number calling come up on my TV. If i don't recognize the number, or a name doesn't come up of someone we know or a company we want to talk to, we ignore it.

That said, this time of year, i will answer numbers i'm not sure about to see if it's a pollster, because i want to take every opportunity to hammer Rauner and Kinzinger.

On Edit: On my cell phone, i NEVER answer from a number i don't know. Anybody that actually has my cell number is listed in my contacts, so their name shows up, not their number. No name, no answer.

[zanana1]

9. Do not diss old people.

The only acceptable form of prejudice in this country is ageism. Alot of old people remember history. They have more insight than young people. And many of them are Democrats.

[GoCubsGo]

11. George is 81 years old.

He's just providing us with some of that "insight" that old people have.

[GoCubsGo]

10. Yeah, this "getting old" person doesn't pick up the phone unless I recognize the number.

And, I will never, ever erase the GOTV message I got on my answering machine from Barack Obama yesterday. I'll need it as an antidote for the spew that comes from that lying blob or orange man-baby goo for as long as we are stuck with that fucking shitbag.

[Homer Wells]

12. I am an official 'old person.

Thank god for caller ID.

I will not answer any 'unknown' caller. I get five to ten calls a day
from these people (political calls, scams, whatnot), but unless I personally
know the caller, or they leave a message, they don't talk to me.

[mainer]

13. The only political calls I get are on my landline

Never on my cell. Old people more likely to have landlines.

[Liberal In Texas]

14. I also ignore anything I don't know.

Haven't been polled in a long time.

The last time I was polled the caller ID said it was a poll so I answered and it turned out to be a repub push poll. So I'm not even inclined to answer if it says poll on the ID.

[Cicada]

15. Yet amazingly polls still are pretty accurate

It’s a miracle. How the hell do they do it?

[Flaleftist]

17. It's more complicated than just asking 1,000 people and dividing the answers.

As I understand it, pollsters consider a number of factors like the age and gender of the respondents and give each respondent a weight to make their sample match census data. So if they poll more old people, the young people who answer will have a higher weight when they calculate the odds.

[elocs]

16. Well, I'm an old people and I won't answer the phone if I don't recognize the number.

If I don't recognize the number, I block it. Emails, even from Democrats go straight into the spam folder.

[Awsi Dooger]

18. How can we question polling tactics and then scream fraud when results don't match polling?

Seems out of whack to me. If we don't win big on Tuesday I know darn well the names who will be here within hours yelling fraud.