• mosiacmango@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    They used to call landlines, which most polling outlets gave up since that will always tilt the results older/conservative.

    Not sure if that’s still their process, but with the wide gap here, i’m betting it is.

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      7 months ago

      I highly doubt they’d be crappy enough to keep that up. Nobody does polls like that now

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        7 months ago

        Looks like they are still using landlines as part of their method:

        To reach those who have abandoned traditional landline telephones, Rasmussen Reports uses an online survey tool to interview randomly selected participants from a demographically diverse panel.

        They claim to offset this with various corrections, but it seems landlines are the only numbers they call.

        Very much still in use.