Are Today's Polls Clueless? 206
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?"
What they lack (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Only certain polls matter... (Score:3, Funny)
There is an easy workaround for this, next time you are voting. See that box labelled "middle-aged, middle-class"? Check it, even if it isn't true. They can't verify it, after all.
Once you do that, you'll find your vote counted along with all the rest of our votes.
Re:What a horrible article (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Biased. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Cell phone people are different (Score:3, Funny)
I think I'm just going to let that sentence sit there all by itself for a while, in all its lonely glory.
Re:Whatever poll results (Score:3, Funny)
Re:More cellphones in large cities (Score:4, Funny)
Huh? Why is that disturbing?