Is there a way to find out how the pollsters do their polling?

[napi21]

How do they select the phone numbers, what weighting averages do they use, how many people they poll? Something just doesn't feel right about the poll results we keep hearing. McNuts has trouble getting a couple of hundred people to attend an event; Barack gets thousands; yet we're told the race is a virtual tie???? I find it extremely hard to believe all the polls are fixed. These people are in the polling business and their results are the only thing they have toconvince others to buy their services.

[elleng]

1. Sure;

each one should provide info on such - ask them.

[Captain Angry]

2. I've seen polling done before.

It's been a while.

But a room full of people with phones calling a set of numbers.

1: These calls are in the middle of the day. Many people are not home to receive the poll call, they're at work.

2: These calls are to landlines, not cellphones.

3: Many people hang up on automated dialers or unknown calls on their Caller ID.

This leads me to believe that the only people answering are retirees, unemployed folks, and people that are still using landlines.

Which, to stereotype a bit, means elderly folks.

That might explain a lot of the poll data.