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Cell phone users not counted in polls (are cell phone users for Kerry?)
The Dominion Post ^
| 10/12/2004
| AP
Posted on 10/12/2004 8:03:41 AM PDT by the_devils_advocate_666
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I think they are trying to say that the cell phone only types are all a bunch of democrat college students who are going to be voting for Kerry... but I could be wrong.
To: the_devils_advocate_666
This cell-only user is voting for Bush.
To: the_devils_advocate_666
I will not be voting for Mr. sKerry and neither will my cell phone.
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posted on
10/12/2004 8:05:55 AM PDT
by
Trampled by Lambs
("Making Al Gore regret inventing the internet, one post at a time")
To: the_devils_advocate_666
I agree, but the question is: will they vote? I read somewhere (can't find it now) about how Gallup and the like think about cell phone only people, and I think they had some figures that made them statistically insignificant to the sample, but I could be wrong.
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posted on
10/12/2004 8:06:25 AM PDT
by
Dyvim
To: the_devils_advocate_666
The 28-year-old Marshall senior Either this guy started late, or he is a loser.
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posted on
10/12/2004 8:07:26 AM PDT
by
Guillermo
(OJ is innocent because Mark Fuhrman said the "N" word.)
To: the_devils_advocate_666
Spencer didn't know pollsters couldn't call him. Neither did Corey Strimer, a graduate student at WVU. ''Woah dude, someone's sayin' there's an election? Woah Who knew?!'
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posted on
10/12/2004 8:07:50 AM PDT
by
Happygal
(liberalism - a narrow tribal outlook largely founded on class prejudice)
To: the_devils_advocate_666
Look even if these cell phone users instead had a regular phone and sat at home every night, it is doubtful that they would ever be called by a pollster. Pollsters take the information from those they talk to and try to project it to the entire population. So now cell phone users are part of the projection rather than the sample. I do not see how this effects the results a great deal.
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posted on
10/12/2004 8:08:07 AM PDT
by
KJacob
(All polls are equal: Some more equal than others.)
To: The Old Hoosier
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posted on
10/12/2004 8:08:10 AM PDT
by
zkbeta51
To: the_devils_advocate_666
Because it's difficult to poll them, nobody knows who cell phone users support for president. In late February, Rock the Vote asked only wireless phone users whom they would vote for in November. Twenty-nine percent said President Bush, and 55 percent said whomever the Democrats ran. But those responders called the pollster themselves, which is not a scientific random sample.If it's not scientific, why relate the results? If news organizations stopped reporting the results of unscientific polls, the world would be a better place.
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posted on
10/12/2004 8:08:18 AM PDT
by
xm177e2
(Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
To: The Old Hoosier
I would think that cell-only people would be: (1) urban; (2) North Eastern Seaboard; and (3) more likely to live in temporary housing (e.g., 1 year apartment) or somesuch.
These areas will (largely) already vote for Kerry, so I don't see much electoral-college effect.
To: the_devils_advocate_666
I have a cell only-no land line. I am of course voting for Bush and a GOP ticket the whole way down.
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posted on
10/12/2004 8:08:23 AM PDT
by
RockinRight
(John Kerry is the wrong candidate, for the wrong country, at the wrong time)
To: the_devils_advocate_666
I'm cell phone only and voting for Bush.
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posted on
10/12/2004 8:08:49 AM PDT
by
NeoCaveman
(Kerry/Edwards is a nuisance, terrorism is serious)
To: Trampled by Lambs
good...last thing i want is a friggen poll working calling me on my cell.
much less telemarketers...I got 1 telemarket call on my cell...I blew up i was so mad.
I called my cell company and told em i didnt want those "new services" text msg's either.
we are so over marketed.
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posted on
10/12/2004 8:09:36 AM PDT
by
Casaubon
(huh??)
To: Dyvim
I can't imagine that they are statistically insignificant. The internet smear campaign about the draft has motivated this group to vote. For Kerry. Not all of them will, of course, but this is a big concern of mine.
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posted on
10/12/2004 8:10:22 AM PDT
by
twigs
To: The Old Hoosier
I know some young, cell phone only people, and they probably will not vote.
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posted on
10/12/2004 8:13:00 AM PDT
by
js1138
(Speedy architect of perfect labyrinths.)
To: the_devils_advocate_666
I use only a cell phone and had a poller call me on October 1st. I believe they said they were with ATT (I use Sprint) so I'm not sure how they got my number. Anyway, I told them I'm voting for Bush.
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posted on
10/12/2004 8:13:22 AM PDT
by
BJtheJob
(from the land of 10,000 lakes and many more communists)
To: Guillermo
Or, he was in the military, and is now going to school.
Or, he is paying his way through by working.
Or, he was an immature kid at 18, had to be out in the real world for a while before appreciating a college education.
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posted on
10/12/2004 8:13:42 AM PDT
by
Judith Anne
(First we were digital brownshirts then we were pajamahadeen, now we're the piranha of the internet)
To: the_devils_advocate_666
...Rock the Vote asked only wireless phone users whom they would vote for in November. Twenty-nine percent said President Bush, and 55 percent said whomever the Democrats ran. But those responders called the pollster themselves, which is not a scientific random sample.Not only were they self-selected, they were self-selected from Rock the Vote watchers. I would have expected a lot less than 29% Bush votes from that crew.
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posted on
10/12/2004 8:14:02 AM PDT
by
Sal
To: MeanWestTexan
I'd be a cell only person if there was tower coverage in my rural area.
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posted on
10/12/2004 8:14:32 AM PDT
by
Judith Anne
(First we were digital brownshirts then we were pajamahadeen, now we're the piranha of the internet)
To: Judith Anne
Yes, all the above would be an example of "starting late."
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posted on
10/12/2004 8:15:59 AM PDT
by
Guillermo
(OJ is innocent because Mark Fuhrman said the "N" word.)
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