http://www.cnbc.com/id/21257762 That's how it's done. That's why his name is removed from polls. If people are calling IN to the poll then it works the same way as the on-line polls. Ron Paul supporters are just told to call in to vote. That's why when pollsters call OUT to people, Ron Paul has virtually no support. Those polls can't be skewed like on-line and call-in polls can be. If all the Ron Paul supporters formed a community to vote, he might win a county. Possibly a large city. But very unlikely, a small state. But, because in reality they are dispersded amongst the masses, Ron Paul won't win anything.
This has been widely refuted. Rasmussen only calls likely Republican voters from previous cycles. They also do not list Paul in their first set of options, but rather under the category, "other".
To add to what Guerilla said, I'm not suggesting they do call-ins for polls. I think that would be just as inaccurate as web polls and straw polls; it would bring only the most motivated voters, and not be a true representation of the American populace. What I am saying is that the current phone poll system is broken. My previous post explains this well, there are a number of issues surrounding the way they gather results for the poll, that is going to skew the reality of it, when you get candidates who get support from unlikely places like Ron Paul does. Sure, gathering results only from landline telephone owners whose numbers are publically listed, who have voted Republican, for the past three primaries, and are above a certain age, will be an accurate poll, but only if older Republicans who own listed landline telephones and vote in all the Republican primaries are the only people who will vote in the primary. My point is that traditionally, this formula was very accurate for gauging success in primary elections, but not now, and not for Ron Paul. Many libertarian-leaning people, a bulk of Paul's support, are not going to list their telephone numbers, they are all into the privacy thing. Many of Paul's supporters are young/first-time voters; he has brought in nearly $100,000 in donations from college kids, I dare say that he has one of the biggest group of young supporters, at least on the Republican side. Many of his supporters have publicly stated they are switching from Democrat or Independent or Libertarian or undecided to Republican, solely to vote in the primary. Either you are suggesting that all these groups are non-existent, or you can admit that the polls are skewed and not an accurate representation of the people. I don't have an alternative method for how to fix these polls, but that doesn't change their accuracy in any way; they just don't work in today's day and age, and they need to get revamped.