17% of us only have a cell phone

justinday:

This means that 17% of the American public are not reflected in polling data because Federal law prohibits autodialing devices to be used on cell phone numbers. I wonder if the data from this survey could be combined with existing polling data to give a more accurate picture of the state of the race?

I wonder if the campaigns compensate for this with their internal polling.

Cite Arrow reblogged from justinday
4 notes | | Sep 17, 2008
  1. mikehudack reblogged this from josephweisenthal and added:
    They’re more likely to do so for Obama than for Kerry or Gore, I’d say.
  2. josephweisenthal reblogged this from mikehudack and added:
    The cellphone polling issue seems to come up every election — someone points it out — and yet it never seems to make...
  3. notthatkindagay reblogged this from mikehudack
  4. mikehudack reblogged this from justinday and added:
    campaigns compensate for...their internal polling.
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