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> people have been conditioned by years of robocalls to ignore out-of-area calls. This is so true!

• giarc 6y ago
  In a somewhat recent local election, polling was showing the incumbent party winning easily. Of course, on election night, the left leaning party won and displaced the party that lead my province for 40 years, a huge upset that no one predicted. It was also an election full of robocalls, mainly by the incumbent party. My thoughts on why polling was so off is that the only people answering their phone were those that supported the incumbents. If you are a person supporting Party X and they are calling each day with a pre-recorded message, you may be more likely to answer. You are more likely to continue to answer your phone and respond to a pollster. If you support Party Y and the only phone calls you get are robocalls from Party X, you stop answering your phone, including those calls from the pollsters. Therefore the pollsters are actually measuring who is willing to answer their phone.