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Zogby Claims Mobile-Only Voters Swing to Kerry

Posted by pudge on from the with-a-straight-face dept.

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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  1. So... by wizbit · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The big question, as always with this age group, is still turnout. Zogby predicts the group accounts for 12% or more(!) of the electorate, so they could play a huge factor in determining the election. And Zogby adds (which you conveniently left off) that there are zero undecideds. Suspect or not, Zogby declares that to mean "this group is definitely going to vote."

    Don't be so quick to discount this poll.

  2. Run by democrats? by squiggleslash · · Score: 4, Interesting
    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
    I thought "Rock the Vote" was originally an MTV (Viacom), campaign, whose CEO has come out in favour of Bush? On their front page, I can see a petition aimed at both the DNC and RNC about the draft,

    Or is it Motorola that counts as "The Democrats" for this particular campaign?

    Or is this just a "Republicans would never encourage people to vote, therefore it's those lousy Democrats that are behind it" thing?

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  3. Ok, so we have by revscat · · Score: 4, Interesting
    1. Boston Red Sox win the World Series
    2. Washington Redskins lose
    3. Cell-only people are swinging to Kerry
    4. Voter registration is way, way up
    5. The Economist endorses Kerry, as do most American newspapers (including many which endorsed Bush in 2000)
    6. More Republicans are endorsing Kerry (Eisenhower, son of the President; Milliken, guv of MI, Cook, Sen-KY, etc.) than Bush (Miller, Sen-GA)
    7. GOP vote blocking efforts are being shut down by those damn "activist judges"
    8. John Stewart's book is #1 on the bestseller lists

    Yup, things are looking good for the good guys.