<prompt> Translate the following text to EnglishKuanzia miaka ya 1960, simu ilichukua nafasi ya uchaguzi wa mlango kwa mlango kama njia inayopendekezwa ya kuchukua msukumo wa taifa.  <response>: Starting in the 1960s, the phone replaced door-to-door polling as the preferred means of taking the nations pulse. 