See, it does happen

A special in response to the criticism you sometimes see that "no one I know ever gets called by a pollster". Remember there are only a couple of hundred voting intention polls carried out each year, and they include a one or maybe two thousand people. The chance of any individual being polled in any given year therefore is only around 1 in 200. Anyway, just to demonstrate that it does happen Mark Pack over at Lib Dem home got called up by ICM yesterday. I suspect he said he would be voting Lib Dem!

That interesting first question that Mark writes about is "Some people have said they would not vote in a new General Election, while others would go and vote at their polling station. I would like to know how certain it is that you would actually go and vote in a general election?" The bit of bumpf there are the start about some people not voting and some going to polling stations is to try and get over the social desirability bias and letting people know that it is alright to admit that you might not both to vote.