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To: SunkenCiv
...telephone polls are going to skew conservative, because of the mobile phones that are the only phones that so many younger and lefter boneheads have as literally their only phone.

Good thought, but it's my understanding that current pollsters call cell phones as well as landlines as part of their methodology. Whether the percentage of cell phones that they reach enables them to get an accurate-enough sample of the likely voting population is a the big question.

24 posted on 10/08/2010 5:49:07 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: justiceseeker93

One of the claims about the polling used in the 1948 race (”Dewey Defeats Truman”) is that the telephone polling tended to reach wealthier households (most people didn’t have phones).


31 posted on 10/08/2010 7:36:40 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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