Political polling, first started by Gallup, had a 90% response rate and was in most cases extremely accurate. Today's response rates for any survey whether online or via land line phones run in the single digits. Many major survey results such as a Time Magazine/CBS poll tend to combine the results from an online survey and a phone survey.
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