That's why they still do it. It's great as propaganda bc the people most likely to answer are the people who are most likely to be well off enough to not have to worry about bill collectors. A lot of modern polling outfits are less interested in figuring out what people think and more interested in generating data that backs up the policies of whoever is paying them. It's the same reason a lot of them use biased language for the polling questions.
That's why they still do it. It's great as propaganda bc the people most likely to answer are the people who are most likely to be well off enough to not have to worry about bill collectors. A lot of modern polling outfits are less interested in figuring out what people think and more interested in generating data that backs up the policies of whoever is paying them. It's the same reason a lot of them use biased language for the polling questions.