Regarding telephone polls. If you are asked a question that you don't

[Sub Atomic]

understand, will the polling company representative explain it to you?

I'm thinking about the "slim majority" who are against wiretaps and wonder about the minority.

Do they even realize that what Bush is doing is illegal? I don't watch television, so I don't know what, if anything, the network and cable news programs are reporting.

Just babbling here.

[Justitia]

1. Nope, not allowed. Unless they are "push polling".... -eom

[WCGreen]

2. When ever I was involved with phone polls....

We were not allowed to explain the question...

The question design was to be used. No questions asked.... No questions answered...

That is why you should look at the question to really get an idea as to the validity of that question....

[GrumpyGreg]

3. Nope ! When I did market research you could read the question

again but could not paraphrase or explain.

[applegrove]

4. I think I saw a newspaper in Canada this week where they talked about

polling. Upwards of 80% of people refused to answer the questions. Also too - at least one poll put the conservatives 18 points ahead when all the others had cons at 10% ahead. Two companies got these weird results. One of them saw it as such an anomaly that they didn't publish it, the other did publish it. Sometimes polls are not a great cage of anything - but used like a stick (oh - you'll be on your own if you think that). Just like torturing gave the Bush WH some phony intel (and they knew torturing lead to phony statements) and then they were off the the UN with Powell using that dis-information... so too... polls...

I'd just want to know all about the polling firm and all about the people responding and the refusal rate, etc... None of which we ever know about.