Have you ever been exit polled in a primary or election?

No, I never have. I did meet my Congressman outside the poll after the last election.

Nope.

My mom & I have discussed this. No one in our entire family has ever been polled.

No, but I have been polled on the phone, before an election as to who I am likely to vote for, and a few other election related questions. It’s usually someone from the headquarters of the party that I belong to. One time the opposing party called out house for some similar pre-poll questions, but after the first question, which was “How likely is it that you will vote for candidate ___? When I said, “Not under any circumstances!” They hung up on me.

I received a call from the Conservative Party before the last election – they wanted me to answer questions for a survey, and I did. Every question was slanted so that I was seen to support at least one of the conservative parties in the election. Not one question allowed me to answer that I would only consider voting for a liberal party. What a joke.

I am called for polling before elections also all the time in TN, never was in any other state thatI can remember. And, also just asking for a vote. I am a registered democrat, and the calls are 90% of the time regarding Republican candidates. I also am called to listen in on audio conference calls by my representative Marsha Blackburn for our opinions, which is pretty cool. You can speak directly to her on the calls, and listen to the comments other make.

Nope, guess I don’t fit the demographic.

I always vote late in the afternoon; the news always seems to be about exit polls from the morning.

No, and I’ve never seen anyone being polled or known anyone who was interviewed.

Advance polls by phone, yes, but I always take those to be veiled efforts by a candidate or an issue committee to make last-minute shifts in strategy.

@Jeruba I think that too, and I also think maybe we should refuse to take those polls so the candidates don’t have polling information to decide where they stand on an issue.

In the UK we generally vote in the parish church. There is usually some fella sittin outside the door, who asks what you did.

You don’t have to answer him, but I think most people do…. I guess that goes into some kind of polling report.

So I suppose that’s it. Maybe parties aren’t allowed to speak to you directly, that’d make sense… seeing as asking people what they “probably will” vote has been scientifically demonstrated to influence what they actually do, in the end.

But yeah, never apart from the strange guy in the churchyard. Sorry for the non-USA answer teheh…

I guess that the numbers are about right. Counting myself (never been polled) that’s 10 who have not (telephone polls don’t count, only exit polls) versus @The_Idler who may have, but isn’t sure. Exit polling here in the USA is generally done by major media operations, and they not only ask what you did, but a whole list of questions to define why you did it. Here’s CNN’s list.

I never have, but I’ve gotten the advance phone polls, too.

I have never been exit polled, but I have been offered a job as an exit poll-er. (sp?)
I declined the job offer.

I was exit polled after voting in the 2008 general election.
The interviewer was from a European branch of the VOA. Our polling place is literally on Wall Street, and he was hoping to scoop a trend among us of how big-money types are voting. Unfortunately for him, big-money types don’t live in this neighborhood, we’re mostly middle-class/upper-middle-class professionals who live in old offices buildings converted to apartments, mostly ordinary (there are always the incredible pent-houseunits at the top of the building, but for the people who own those this is rarely their ‘permanent address’ it’s a pied-a-terre).
Although a lot of us work nearby for big-money, he mentioned that he was getting trending strongly in the opposite direction from his expectations.

Good question. I’ve been voting for more than 40 years and have never even seen a poll taker, let alone being quizzed by none.

@augustlan I’ve gotten the telephone polls as well. I think they must be far more widely used.

@wilma So they DO exist. :-)

@dabbler Cool. And VOA, no less.

@Ron_C Closing in on 50 years, and I recall seeing polling underway once when voting in a suburb of Los Angeles. But they were busy talking to other voters, so I went on through like 2 ships passing in the night.