Many of you missed it over the Thanksgiving holiday, but I launched a trial balloon to explore hiring SurveyUSA to poll North Dakota on behalf of Daily Kos. Well, it ain't gonna happen, since SUSA is tapped out, polling 26 primaries this season.
But in that thread, several of you noted that it would be relatively easy to set up our own polling operation with automated dialers. If anyone has experience with this sort of thing, please contact me. That ranges from experience in setting up the technical end of the operation, to survey techniques (like poll wording, sampling issues, etc.).
I'm not promising anything, but I'd like to see what it would take to build from scratch.