I was phone-polled on SS reform / private accounts...

[MeDeMax]

Got a call from a public opinion survey firm, the caller's ID reads "Woelfel Research" [phone].

I don't recall all the questions verbatim, but the gist was:

• Did I think the SS program was in a crisis and needed drastic fixes or minor problems that could be worked out.
  
  
• Did I favor creation of private accounts or have SS continue its current way of operating.
  
  
• Did I oppose SS reform if it meant $ 900,000,000 of costs to restructure it. Strongly oppose it or mildly oppose it.
  
  
• Was I a repub, dem or independant.
  
  
• Would I vote against a candidate in 2006 based on their position on SS reform.
  
  
• Did I vote regularly.
  
  
• The usual demographic questions.
  
  

Just wondering who is behind this research and if other DUers had thoughts on this poll.

[Zuni]

1. simple answers

1. minor problems
2. continue what works
3. strongly oppose
4. dem
5. I would not vote for anyone who supports Bush's SS plan. Never.
6. yes

[MeDeMax]

3. pretty close...

to the responses I gave, I did not state my party affiliation but I told the pollster that I was a "fiscally very conservative" individual.

The pollster interpreted that as being repub, I thought that was pretty funny :-) knowing how the past few budgets have been administered.

When the survey was done, I asked if there was space for comments, there wasn't any but the pollster was willing to pass them along to her supervisor. So I told her that SS's probs could be fixed by raising the wage cap on SS taxes, she asked me to explain, and I did.

She said she had not known that previously and thanked me for it.

[punpirate]

2. Woelfel...

... was commissioned by AARP to poll on the Medicare reform bill. It's possible that AARP has also paid for this survey on SS.