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Are Political Pollsters Undercounting the Unwired?

in News on October 24, 2008 at 2:50 pm PT

Voters who use only a wireless phone are being undercounted by political pollsters. Given that these voters skew young, that young voters (according to USA Today) favor Barack Obama over John McCain by a margin of 61 to 32 percent, and that many polls don’t include wireless phones in their samples, it seems there would be a discrepancy in poll results–leaning toward the Republican hemisphere. Don’t forget to vote, my friends.