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Most polls use phones, which are a pretty reliable. Most people have phones and choose to answer them. If they don't, you can use alternates also selected at random. Combined with other techniques, the pollsters can make the sample pretty damn close to pure random.
But if a random sample poll can't be valid, as you noted, no poll can. Including the one from the magazine.
that's rather my point; rassales claim would require delegitimizing all polling in order to justify ignoring this one.