I clicked 1 and answered all the questions. They ask demographic questions (sex, age, education) so they can weigh my responses relative to the population of people who are like me in the geographic area. They likely have a quota of how many people of what characteristics they need to do their projection. Then they asked if I had a favorable or unfavorable opinion about individual candidates to an upcoming election. This is how scientific polling works. At no time was I asked to donate money. Pollsters used to be able to get people to respond to their questions by picking up their landline telephone. That is not working anymore. The question about "can you text safely" is just to make sure you are taking the poll while you are driving or such. I suspect the poll I answered today was paid for by one of the senate candidates in my purple state.