ScottPolitical.com recommends telephone polling for clients who need an immediate snapshot of the current situation. Telephone surveys can be accomplished in less than a week. We also encourage clients who reside in smaller districts to use telephone polling because access to enough emails for a statistically accurate Internet survey are not available. Can be completed in 7 days.

In many jurisdictions telephone polling is still the best method. We use live operators because live operators may hear consistent responses that we did not envision and the success ratio is much higher than automated polls. Because we now have access to cell phone numbers, the telephone survey continues to be an accurate and fast research method. Learn more.

Is Internet or Telephone polling better? Columbia University's Robert Y. Shapiro answered this most popular question among campaign managers when he recently wrote "The idea of shifting from telephone polling to Internet polling is a lively topic of debate at the moment. The one new juncture that survey researchers have reached is that, with the success of telephone polling, there's been a proliferation of telephone polls. As a result of that, and as a result of telephone solicitations and market research, as opposed to political or academic polling, a lot of people, when they're called by telephone, decline to participate, because they think the caller is trying to sell them something or because they're just being bothered too heavily by all these phone calls. Internet polling allows people to participate in polls at their convenience, rather than when the interviewer calls. Individuals can be invited to a website, which they can visit at their leisure, or be sent a questionnaire in an e-mail message, which can be responded to at their convenience. Polling participants don't have to worry about being bothered and disrupted in the middle of dinner. That's the advantage of doing Internet polling." Learn more.

Internet poll can be completed in 14-21 days.