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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on September 16, 2010, 12:18:38 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=381x436
Oh my.
This, from the cobweb-congested deaf-and-hard-of-hearing forum on Skins's island:
nmbluesky (531 posts) Wed Sep-15-10 03:00 PM
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Do Pollsters IGNORE Deaf Voters?
I must get this off my chest and share them with you. Since I discovered POLL by phone, not websites. I wonder if the polling results (with many of them being a 4% margin for error) actually represents the population? Has any Pollsters ever use Relay Service to call Deaf voters? Has any Deaf Democrats and Deaf Republicans or Deaf (any other Party) ever received a phone call from any pollsters asking them questions on who or what they will vote for if the elections were held “today�
I have never received any calls from pollsters. Just last week, I received a call from my energy provider company asking survey questions, which was suppose to take 12 minutes, ended up taking more than 30 minutes. Couldn’t this extra time be the reason why pollsters do not want to contact Deaf voters for their opinions?
http://bigbenfactor.wordpress.com/2010/09/14/do-pollste...
Nobody calls franksolich, and he considers that a blessing, not a problem.
There won't be any primitive responses, because primitives don't read the deaf-and-hard-of-hearing forum.
Nobody pays attention to us.
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I hear just fine and I've never been called either! I must be bein' discriminated against!!!!
Get a life, idiot!!!
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They're looking for a reason they're tanking in the polls. Must be millions of uncounted democrat voters oit there.
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They're looking for a reason they're tanking in the polls. Must be millions of uncounted democrat voters oit there.
Like the dead and illegal alien voters that swing Demonrat?
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Like the dead and illegal alien voters that swing Demonrat?
Well, the dead can't hear and the illegals can't understand English. Funny how both groups show up to vote D though. :confused:
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They mainly ignore people without phones, you DUmbshit. If there's a phone in the house where the deaf person lives, how do you think they'd know that one person at that number was deaf, on a blind call?
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They mainly ignore people without phones, you DUmbshit. If there's a phone in the house where the deaf person lives, how do you think they'd know that one person at that number was deaf, on a blind call?
:hammer:
Whoa DAT slow down. First you diss the deaf for not havin phones then take a shot at the blind?? Who's next, the halt, lame, and crippled. :overreaction: :rotf:
Now I am one who has hearing loss (but with aids can hear), a back that goes out more than I do (but I know to limit what I do) , and can barely see with out my glasses (ok I can't drive without them even though they have Braille at some drive-thru's). The sad part of all this is that I am in better shape than most dummies heck I don't even rate one of those handicapped stickers they are so proud of.
And, I seem to be on the poll list for a couple organizations (Rasmussen was the last one to call and there is another here in NH who's name escapes me at the moment). Just why I do not know. How the calls go depend a lot on the phone I am on and the phone the caller is on. Usually a cheap cell phone call is impossible to hear, ditto fast talkers, low talkers and those with a pronounced accent (think Indian or Southern ).
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I've been called by pollsters twice. Both times, the drone on the other end of the line quite literally hung up the moment I gave an answer they didn't want to hear.
And you wonder why I cannot be "un-convinced" that polls are as rigged as any other propaganda item on the news...
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Whoa DAT slow down. First you diss the deaf for not havin phones then take a shot at the blind?? Who's next, the halt, lame, and crippled. :overreaction: :rotf:
Now I am one who has hearing loss (but with aids can hear), a back that goes out more than I do (but I know to limit what I do) , and can barely see with out my glasses (ok I can't drive without them even though they have Braille at some drive-thru's). The sad part of all this is that I am in better shape than most dummies heck I don't even rate one of those handicapped stickers they are so proud of.
And, I seem to be on the poll list for a couple organizations (Rasmussen was the last one to call and there is another here in NH who's name escapes me at the moment). Just why I do not know. How the calls go depend a lot on the phone I am on and the phone the caller is on. Usually a cheap cell phone call is impossible to hear, ditto fast talkers, low talkers and those with a pronounced accent (think Indian or Southern ).
Not at all, you're jumping to the unfounded conclusion that no deaf people have phones and everyone else does. That's not what I said at all.
Lots of houses where deaf people live have phones, because like anyone else, most of the deaf live with other people, and generally not just with other deaf people. At the same time, there area lot of normally-hearing people who don't have phones, especially landlines, and cell numbers are not as accessible for sampling. So, no phone means no call from the survey people, which is what I said.
If the caller does have a number, all they usually really know is that it's a phone number to a residence. They have no way of knowing if there is a deaf person at that number before they call.
Ergo, no phone, no call. It has exactly Jack Shit to do with whether some shit-for-brains deaf DUmmie lives where the phone is located.
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Awwwww, no 1 has answered the poor guy yet, they're so rude to people with disabilities.
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Not at all, you're jumping to the unfounded conclusion that no deaf people have phones and everyone else does. That's not what I said at all.
Lots of houses where deaf people live have phones, because like anyone else, most of the deaf live with other people, and generally not just with other deaf people. At the same time, there area lot of normally-hearing people who don't have phones, especially landlines, and cell numbers are not as accessible for sampling. So, no phone means no call from the survey people, which is what I said.
If the caller does have a number, all they usually really know is that it's a phone number to a residence. They have no way of knowing if there is a deaf person at that number before they call.
Ergo, no phone, no call. It has exactly Jack Shit to do with whether some shit-for-brains deaf DUmmie lives where the phone is located.
Yeah I knew what you meant, but I couldn't resist. It was the juxtaposition of deaf and blind that set me off. :lmao:
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You've got a mean streak. I like that.
:cheersmate: