We get a lot of calls that go roughly like this at our house:

Caller asks to speak with me or my husband, using our names.

Can I ask you a few questions?

Do you plan to participate in the Iowa caucuses next January?

Who do you plan to support at the caucus?

Do you have a second choice? If so, who is it?

What issue is most important to you?

Thank you, goodbye.

They are not gathering enough demographic information to make this a "real" poll. Also, they are not giving you a list of candidates or isses--just asking open-ended questions.

They are calling registered Ds to figure out where their supporters and leaners are, I assume so that they can follow up with phone calls from field organizers.

It's not push-polling or message-testing--they are not testing out lines that might make you change your mind.

I always ask for the name of the company doing the survey, and usually it's not a company I've heard of. I ask whether it's for a campaign, and one time someone said it was for Obama, but usually they just stick to the name of the company doing the survey.

Technically these expenses are probably filed under polling, but I think it's more organizational work.