The phone rings and it's a person interested in your views for a poll being conducted. Do you answer his questions, do you lie when answering, or do you hang up?

I have answered the phone several times over the last couple weeks with callers doing "research" and looking for my viewpoint on the upcoming election. Once I'm aware of what they're after, I hang up. Why do I hang up, because I believe that all this polling is being used to create perception instead of measuring it.

So how reliable are polls when people lie? How reliable are they when people refuse to answer, especially if people who refuse are generally people like myself who are completely convinced that the MSM is biased and working with the Demorats?

Polls in 2004 were wrong. Exit polling was wrong. So why does the MSM jam polls down our throats if they have no credibility? Could it be that bogus polls are okay if they show Democrats winning and the polls might discourage Republicans from voting? I certainly think so.

Don't buy into polls as being a measure of public perception, because they only measure the viewpoint of people who respond to them, and I believe that more and more Republicans are telling pollsters to get lost. Pollsters can't know the party affiliation of all the people hanging up on them, and they can only guess at the breakdown of non-respondants. I'm convinced that a growing percentage of their calls are not being answered, and a growing majority of those people, like myself, are associated to one party.

Would you respond to a phone poll if someone called?.