All polls are like that. The industry pretends that they are dealing with random samples, but they are never, ever doing so. They select for people who, unlike

All polls are like that. The industry pretends that they are dealing with random samples, but they are never, ever doing so. They select for people who, unlike me, don't hang up the instant they recognize a cold call. I've got it down to 2, 3 seconds top...click. One sure sign: A slight pause between my "hello" and the interlocutor's "Is so-and-so there?"--time in which the auto-dialer is connecting queued operators. I could probably hang up before I hear a human voice and still have a 95 percent success rate at identifying them.