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Will “Cell Phone Only” Be The Story Of Tomorrow?

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, McCain, Polls, Technology

Check out Pollster’s graphs that show how cell phone only users affect the election…

No “Cell Phone Only” Weighting



Conservative “Cell Phone Only” Weighting (2%)



Full “Cell Phone Only” Weighting (4%)

Pretty shocking numbers, but I can’t help but think the pollsters are missing at least 2% this election. Because personally I haven’t gotten any phone calls yet from either campaign, although I do get text messages from the Obama campaign.

What do you think? Is the “cell phone only” thing just a myth or does it have broad electoral implications?


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3 Responses to “Will “Cell Phone Only” Be The Story Of Tomorrow?”

  1. Erik Sickinger Says:
    November 3rd, 2008 at 9:50 am

    I don’t know what to think.
    Ron Paul’s supporters always used this line to suggest that RP had a much larger following than the polls suggested. But it was pretty close to where polls had him pegged.

  2. Agnostick Says:
    November 3rd, 2008 at 9:58 am

    Here’s something to mull over…

    This past Saturday, I brought my parents over to my office to show ‘em around a bit. The main phone line rang–not the direct line in my office, but the main line to our department. I used my office phone to “pick up”… and it was a robocall from Pat Roberts. To an office. On a Saturday afternoon.

    I received another one, same line, same phone number… about 10 minutes ago.

    These people are just plain stupid.

    Meanwhile, I have yet to receive anything of the sort on my cell phone–no calls, no texts.

    Four years from now, robocalling is going to look stupid, stupid, stupid.

    Agnostick
    agnostick@excite.com

    P.S. Am I voting for Roberts? FRACK NO!!!!!

  3. thekansascitian Says:
    November 3rd, 2008 at 2:33 pm

    I was a Ron Paul supporter. We also counted on the youth vote and the cell phone only crowd to exlpain why he was polling so low.

    In the end the polls were right, we weren’t. The cell phone guys didn’t matter.

    Looking at the outregously slanted weights polls are giving demcorats this time around, it’s going to be a squeeker.

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