Brown University pollsters are having a tough time getting Rhode Islanders to answer questions about the presidential race, so poll results won't come out until noon Sunday.

Brown University pollsters are having a tough time getting Rhode Islanders to answer questions about the presidential race, so poll results won't come out until noon Sunday.

The pollsters “have never seen this much push-back,” said Prof. James A. Morone, director of Brown’s Taubman Center. “People are so sick and tired of the race. They don’t want to talk about it. They don’t want to hear about it. The want to sit back and drink a beer. I can’t blame them.”

Morone had expected to release the results on Thursday afternoon, providing fresh data about how residents might vote in the state’s Republican and Democratic presidential primaries on Tuesday. “But we have been getting an incredibly slow response rate, so we have put it off,” he said. “We are going to have to sit in the trenches and dig away at it.”

Pollsters began surveying voters on Tuesday and expected to be done by Wednesday night, but they were still calling voters on Thursday and might still be at it Friday, he said. Brown is shooting for a sample size of about 600, with a 4 percent margin of error, but was still short of that goal on Thursday afternoon, he said.

In a news release, the Taubman Center said it “extended the survey period due to an unusually high number of incomplete surveys, which the center attributes to voter fatigue.”

Besides asking about the presidential race, pollsters are gauging the job-approval ratings of Governor Raimondo and Providence Mayor Jorge O. Elorza, and they’re asking about marijuana legalization, charter schools, truck tolls and state spending on tourism.

Morone said there are four questions about marijuana — including whether people have ever tried it. According to the early results, he said, it looks like a lot of Rhode Islanders have smoked pot.

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Clinton, Kasich, Sanders in R.I. this weekend

— Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will come to Central Falls High School on Saturday, according to the campaign website. "Hillary Clinton will hold a public organizing event in Central Falls where she will discuss her plans to raise incomes for families and break down the barriers that hold Rhode Islanders back," the website said. "Hillary will be at Central Falls High School. Doors will open at 2 p.m."

— Clinton will be visiting on the same day that Republican presidential candidate John Kasich will be coming to the state. Kasich, Ohio's governor, will attend a town hall event at 11 a.m. Saturday at Bryant University, in Smithfield, at the George E. Bellow Center for Information and Technology.

— Bernie Sanders will visit make a campaign stop at Roger Williams Park Sunday at noon. No other details were available late Sunday night.