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Not all survey relations imply an asymmetry that benefits the inquirer. This is what emerges from an analysis of the interactions between the pollsters working for polling institutes and the people who accept to answer their questions. In this situation, domination and power over the unfolding of the interaction are vested in the surveyed. Three factors can help explain this: the way in which the surveyed perceive the polling institutes and the stakes of the survey; the position of the pollsters within the institutes; and the way in which the surveyed perceive the social position of the pollsters. Yet, pollsters are not deprived of resources that they can mobilize in order to reduce the asymmetry and re-enchant the interaction: by displacing it outside the official relation of questioning, they give it a different meaning.