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Are Today's Polls Clueless?

Posted by timothy on from the let's-ask-some-chinchillas-to-find-out dept.

Frisky070802 writes "As noted on electoral-vote, Jimmy Breslin has an interesting article in Newsday on why polls are broken. This is because they poll only landline phones, and a substantial fraction of younger people have only cell phones -- so they hit a biased demographic. If a majority of younger voters tend Democratic, the polls could be giving Kerry a raw deal. Hmm, could this be why two polls released this week vary so widely?"

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  1. Now that Bush is winning in the polls by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Let's question them! Because obviously they're not accurate!

  2. Re:Who cares? by Rayonic · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    > Quite simply, they think Bush is a reckless cowboy

    They probably think Bush is a reckless cowboy for doing things John Kerry agrees with.

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