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Are Today's Polls Clueless?

Posted by timothy on Friday September 17, 2004 @08:20AM 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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What they lack by the+darn · 2004-09-17 08:22 · Score: 4, Funny

Most polls lack the all-important CowboyNeil option.

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Re:Biased. by scrod · 2004-09-17 10:26 · Score: 4, Funny

Yes, it is biased. There's no reason to believe that older people would necessarily be more inclined to believe the Bush admin's lies than younger people would.