They talked about this in 2004. I have only a cellphone, so do a lot of people.
btw, Gallup does include a cellphone model in their polls.
For the life of me, I don’t know who these pollsters speak with. Everyone I know refuses to state their positions over the phone; most have call blocking.
lol... I wonder if they realize if that trend can work two ways?
Some of us craz, backward “rethuglicans” actually have caller ID and don’t answer the phone if we don’t know who’s calling. Hmmm.
I am sure that Mr. BALL knows whereof he speaks when discussing the finer points of teabagging.
I went running around Northwest Georgia collecting debtors and I found a lot of cell phone only homes. Most of them were working clas white and I believe Republican. I would bet that the Dems are being factored in who are cell phone only, but not the GOP ers.
Pollsters call people for specific demographics. It may well be they have a harder time reaching the 20 somethings, but they will work at it till they get enough of them.
I am cell phone only as well. This is just grasping for straws.
I got news for this deranged brainiac...there are some devices that exist for screening incoming calls...they are called ANSWERING MACHINES and CALLER ID(not to mention ignoring the call, period).
This feller is headed for a big emotional fall.
they are so funny, don’t they know these polls are weighted?
Regardless of cell phone no cell phone, we got democrats voting republican.
Yeah, Mr. Ball, Tom, as he would appear in an ancient paper product phone book. Only commies have cell phones. Uh, huh.
The author of this article is an IDIOT! Typical, lame, elitist mentality. He thinks that only hip, young people like him don’t have land lines. No one in my extended family has a land line anymore, young and old. And 99% of us are conservative.
I’m in the cellphone only demographic.
It makes no difference, respectable polls keep track of the demographics of the people they’re polling and make adjustments as necessary; and if they over count older people as a percentage of the population - take a wild guess who votes.
There was a time just a few years ago, when cutting the landline or never having had one in the first place, was a significant thing. Young people, the technologically inclined, highly mobile high income individuals.
This is no longer true at all. We have had going on three years of severe economic pressure. The cell phone is a fact of life with greater utility than the landline. That landline represents, what, $30.00, $40.00, $50.00 per month depending upon where you are? Completely redundant, paying money to be badgered by telemarketers. Everybody you know calls your cell, save very elderly relatives who just can’t wrap their minds around anything else.
This is a nonissue. There is no phantom Democrat advantage hidden in polling due to cell phone only.
Reading screeds like this make me more adamant in my opposition to legalizing drugs... a mind is a terrible thing to waste, and his is wasted in multiple ways.
PS. Yes, other polls ARE checking with cell phone users. geez.
Even though we have a land line...the calls automatically go to our cells...hubby hangs up on them.
I know talking about little things like “facts”, “math”, and “science” (as in, real science, not ideology passing as “science”) to a leftist is like presenting a crucifix made out of garlic and holy water to a vampire, but...
Including/excluding cell phone only households only skews the results if the two populations are statistically different in their views and behavior on one of the bases other than that the results are weighted by.
If we were to presume, for example, that Democrats are considerably more likely to rely only on cell phones than Republicans (again, this is just a presumption for the sake of illustration), it has no bearing on the results of a survey that weights based on modeled party identification, unless the subset of Democrats who are cell phone only differ from landline Democrats in a statistically significant manner. Why? Because the results are already adjusted to fit turnout models weighted by party ID. Which Democrats get polled is unimportant if Democrats as a whole generally respond the same way.