Is this why polling was so skewed?

[Mechaman]

Well possibly that, though I think a better conclusion is that many people just don't like answering freaking phone polling (going back to your point about landline polling and people being "off the grid" so to speak).  I can tell you I've been polled five times in the past two years and I hung up each time.  My parents hang up on pollsters all the time.  My friend who runs several stores in the area never answers phone polls.

I mean really think about it: imagine you are not a political hack or a very polite person and you got a random robocall from CoolPoliticsUSA or whoever when you are in the middle of doing laundry, watching tv, working on a side project for work, playing Skyrim, plotting to kill somebody, etc. etc. how charitable or nice are you going to feel?  Can you seriously tell me that you will be jumping up and down just dying to even entertain Hal 9000 for a few minutes by providing some likely bullshit answers just so you can go back to watching clown porn in peace?

Just my two cents.