Poll Says Cellphones Still Aren't Killing Political Polls
from the not-this-year dept
For some time there's been a lot of concern about what effect the rise of the cellphone-only demographic would have on the business of political polling. And every time election day gets near, you can count upon pundits and articles about how the polls might not be reliable this year, because they're missing all of these people that don't have land lines anymore. Well according to a new, er, poll, the cell phones are yet to have a significant impact on on polling. Not only is the cellphone-only population still not that large, but people who only have cellphones are less likely to be registered to vote, probably due to the fact that this population skews younger. Still, with more people going to cellphones and VoIP phones, eventually the polling industry is going to have to confront this issue. Expect to hear all these stories again in '08.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Poll says polls aren't skewed?
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Likely whitewashing??
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Oh, and by the way. The article was not saying that polls are inaccurate. It was actually saying that Cell phone use was not affecting the accuracy of Polls.
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I'm also NOT 'younger' at 36 years of age. I'm actually old enough to be president and I do vote. I know of at least 4 other people very similar to myself, without landlines.
It sounds like the pollsters just don't want to admit cell phones are affecting the accuracy...
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cell phones?
So skewed polls becuase of loss of landlines is happening just not to the affect that we should give a rats tail yet!
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ported landline number
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STOP THE PERVERT
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