pollstress
nounEtymology From pollster + -ess.
- Not everyone who replies to a pretty pollstress cares enough to join an association or to write a letter to his congressman.1955, Raymond Augustine Bauer, What Foreign Trade Policy Does American Business Want?, Cambridge, Mass.: Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, page 7:
- A May Poll survey conducted by pollstress May Hemm found only one store owner in downtown Great Bend who didn’t give a coffee brake^([sic]) at any time during the day, (said it was too hard to work out).1955 March 6, Bob Burns, “'Got Time for a Cup?' Nearly EveryBody Does”, in Great Bend Daily Tribune, 79th year, number 177, Great Bend, Kan., page 3, column 2:
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- I saw the opinion poll as a means of encouraging the shopkeepers of Sawston, so I gave the propaganda answer, which rather flummoxed the pollstress since her form made no provision for such an eccentric answer.1993 December 6, Christopher South, “Why I’m in two minds about opinion polls”, in Cambridge Evening News, page 14:
- […]introduced, in fairness to Tony Snow): Fox News’ Tony Snow; pollstress Kellyanne Fitzpatrick;1998, The Hotline:
- A self-described “pollstress” who includes [Donald] Trump’s running mate, Indiana Governor Mike Pence, as a former client, Ms. [Kellyanne] Conway leveraged her status to help sell herself as an expert on marketing candidates to women.2016 August 19, “Conway Brings Conservative Experience”, in The Wall Street Journal: