Zogby Claims Mobile-Only Voters Swing to Kerry

Zogby released a poll yesterday that showed the ill-counted mobile-phone-only voters heavily in favor of Kerry over Bush. It should be noted that all participants opted in to the survey through a site run by Democrats, making the results non-random and therefore highly suspect. Further, the results tracked very closely ("virtually identical") to other polls run of the same age group, which means that if the results are to be trusted, mobile-only users in this age group are not any different from other voters in this age group, and their exclusion from those other polls is insignificant.

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I predict...

[Otter]

...they'll have a low turnout rate anyway, since they're incapable of shutting the hell up long enough to vote.

At least I hope so -- I don't want to be stuck in the booth deliberating about aldermen while some nitwit a foot away yammers about his sex life.

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[schmaltz]

...the results tracked very closely ("virtually identical") to other polls run of the same age group, which means that if the results are to be trusted, mobile-only users in this age group are not any different from other voters in this age group, and their exclusion from those other polls is insignificant.

That assertion has no legs. Saying that because set A responds in a way that is similar to set B's response, they are essentially the same and A can be excluded if B is? That's just wrong. For one, the questions used to obtain the responses of the two groups, coming from different polling orgs, will very likely not be the same, which obliterates the base of your assertion.

And, man, "if the results are to be trusted" - that *pegged* the needle on my Strauss-o-meter.

Text messages

[MillionthMonkey]

Is this why I keep getting text messages warning me that if I went over my minutes I'll get arrested at the polls on November 4?

Re:Text messages

[MillionthMonkey]

Cause if you try to vote on the 4th you are probably trying to commit fraud?

Actually it was a sly reference to a leaflet that someone has been distributing in Democratic areas of Alabama:

Attention:
Jefferson
County!!!

See You At The Poles
November 4, 2004.

To Find your local polling
place, call Jefferson
County Voter's
Registration
Commission.

Of course, the election is on Nov. 2. It's just like Soviet Russia- if you try to vote on Nov. 4, the fraud has been committed on you!

Re:So...

[E_elven]

Also on FOX: "Nokia, Motorola And SonyEricsson Using Microwave Devices To Turn Patriotic Americans Into Kerry-Voting Zombies. Our Online Poll: Can A Company Be Terrorist?"