"Hello. I'm a REPUBLICAN pollster and I would like to ask you a few questions."
If anybody tells you that they or their spouses received such a phone call, they are lying. Why? Because political pollsters of all stripes (Republican and Democrat) NEVER identify their party affiliation during interviews so as not to taint the sample. Therefore what is one to make of self-sainted former FBI Director James Comey's November 3 tweet that a Republican pollster called up his wife and that she replied with the following response?
VOTE in 3 days: “I will not vote for another Republican until Trump is out of office.” My independent-voter wife to a Republican pollster who randomly called our house.
— James Comey (@Comey) November 3, 2018
Observant tweeters quickly cast aspersions upon the veracity of Comey's highly dubious claim:
Lie. Pollsters calling NEVER state their party affiliation. It would taint the sample!
— MkwDetroit (@Shadforth10) November 4, 2018
Your lies know no bounds. I was polled too. I have no idea if the polling was from a Democrat or a Republican.
— NanNJ (@nanNJ) November 4, 2018
I'd love to check his phone records to see if anyone actually called their house. Can pretty much guarantee they didn't. Comey is a habitual liar and danger to our Democracy.
— Jason Westcott (@uhavbadsportsiq) November 4, 2018
Yes, it would be interesting if Comey's oh so convenient story, about a pollster who proclaimed himself to be Republican, thus ruining the sample he is taking just days before the midterm elections, could be verified.
As to Comey's silly claim about his "independent-voter" wife, we have this from The Hill on April 15, 2018--- "Comey's wife and daughters took part in Women's March, supported Clinton":
Former FBI Director James Comey said his wife and most of his children supported Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, and later took part in the Women's March after President Trump's inauguration.
"I didn't take a poll among all the kids, but I'm pretty sure that at least my four daughters, probably all five of my kids, wanted Hillary Clinton to be the first woman president," Comey said in an interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos.
"There was a lot of passion in this house for Hillary Clinton. And I— I get that," he added. "But again, I hope it illustrates to people that I really wasn't making decisions based on political fortunes."
Yeah, some "independent voter" she is. If one did not know that James Comey is such a saintly figure far above mere partisanship as he has repeatedly reminded us, one could almost suspect he was engaging in cheap political tricks on Twitter just ahead of the midterm elections.
