The end of polls?

The end of polls?
"...According to Politico:
The percentage of Americans willing to participate in telephone polls has hit a new low, according to a new report, raising doubts about the continued viability of the phone surveys that have traditionally dominated politics and elections, both in the media and in campaigns.
The Pew Research Center reported Wednesday that the response rate for its phone polls last year fell to just 6 percent...
...But I think there are other factors, political ones, that a website with a name like Politico shouldn't shrink from.
One, there's the presence of push polls, the manipulated questions driven by some buyers of polls, that are set to create a certain outcome. 
Democratic operatives seem to have stepped up the use of these to market the idea that Americans are for things they aren't for — open borders, a Green New Deal, or nationalized health care billed as "free." 
The proliferation of this kind of dishonest polling practice pretty well turns off many would-be answerers of polls from answering any polls at all. 
Push polling has been around, but it seems to be getting more frequent, what with the mainstream media making themselves the Democratic Party's operative ally..."
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