The phrase "answer a poll" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the act of responding to a survey or questionnaire that collects opinions or information from participants.
Example: "Please take a moment to answer a poll about your preferences for the upcoming event."
Alternatives: "respond to a survey" or "participate in a poll."
In the context of election polls, that means when things are going badly for one candidate, their supporters are less likely to answer a poll than when things are going well.
Feeling overly polite, there's a willingness to wager that a vast sum of this group may be open enough to answer a poll, but skeptical of confidential surveys enough to hold back.
This problem is also getting worse each year, as people are increasingly reluctant to answer cell-phone calls from unknown numbers or to take ten minutes to answer a poll in a busy world.
And on MSNBC.com, about 5,000 readers answered a poll about the satellite's predicted course.
"Anybody who answers a poll question about a war saying enthusiastically, we want war, probably hasn't been involved in a war".
"Anybody who answers a poll question about war saying enthusiastically, 'We want war,' probably has not been involved in war," he says.
On the Virgin forums at cableforum.co.uk, 95% of those who answered a poll said they would opt out of the deal.
Few mainstream pollsters were conducting their surveys in Spanish (which costs extra) and thus missed those people who were uncomfortable answering a poll in English but were nonetheless likely to vote Democratic.
Few mainstream pollsters were conducting their surveys in Spanish (which costs extra) and thus missed those people who were uncomfortable answering a poll in English but were nonetheless likely to vote Democratic...Another reason may have something to do with the Democratic ground game in Colorado.
A military president wears a mask that carries the answer to a poll carried out in whichever location the work is shown.
LETTER FROM PARIS giving percentage breakdown of answers to a poll taken by L'Institut d'Opinion Publique of how French citizens feel about various facets of the French Army insurrection in Algeria, as published in France-Soir.
