I have voted in every election for the past 25 years, probably more. I have registered and re-registered several times. Here in CA I just re-registered when I got the new Real ID Drivers License. I understand that when political pollsters want to get the opinions on whatever they are polling about the opinion of Likely Voters is preferred over just a Registered Voter. As it should be because if you have a voting record and have voted in every election that you can remember, you are probably more likely to vote in the next election. What gets me is that in all these years of voting, I have not once been called to answer questions from a polling service. NOT ONCE IN THE PAST 25 YEARS.
I don’t know why that is, I would be happy to give them my opinion. Tell them who I am voting for, or how I intend to vote, or what I think about this issue or that issue. But they don’t call me. I suspect that they have my number, because I gave it to the DMV when I re-registered. I mean I have had the same number for the past 12 years or so, and before that I had the same number for an equal amount of time, maybe even longer. I do only have a cell phone but from what I understand politicians can legally call you on your cell phone. I might be wrong there, and that might be the problem.
But this got me thinking. Nobody has ever asked my opinion, I have never been one of the people polled. How many others out there are in the same boat? I mean if in 25 years they have not gotten my opinion, then they are surely not getting a diversified range of people and must be calling the same people over and over again. Now I understand that in some cases that is a desired way to poll to check on the changing attitudes of the people whom they already know how they were thinking previously. But to limit the results by never calling some people seems statistically erroneous, and might be one of the reasons polls are so off some times.
In any case, I do feel left out of the polling process, and I feel like nobody cares what I think. I have to admit that I hate marketing calls, and the scam calls, and the like. But, I would talk to a person conducting a political poll. Of course now that I have said that I am probably going to wish I hadn’t. But hey, the probability of them calling me is pretty unlikely based on previous experience.