Also, how many people are on the “do not call” list. How many people have caller ID so do not answer their phone unless they recognize the number? And the big one....how many people only have cell phones which he cannot reach?
This election may just prove that with all the new technology polls are now a thing of the past.
BINGO! From the article:
Even as recently as four years ago, it was estimated that only 18 percent of adults owned a cell phone but no landline, and Pew found in a postelection study that the difference between surveys that were based only on landline interviews versus those that included cell-phone respondents was “smaller than the margin of sampling error in most polls.”
Today, some demographers think that perhaps a majority of households either don’t have or don’t answer a landline. In other words, ignoring cell phones risks ignoring more than half of America. “I don’t know how you can in good conscience release polls in this day and age without that group factored in,” says Leve...