a ray of hope for the elections!

i've been concerned because of the latest polling showing obama/mccain in a virtual dead head. however, it was mentioned to me today that the polling is done only of people with landlines for telephones. a large percentage of the younger population has a cell phone only, so, even at a dead heat poll result, there's a chance that obama still has an edge. (yes, there are young republicans with cell phones, etc., but they suck )

hahaha yeah, I've heard similar reports. That there is a fairly substantial bias in current polling techniques, and that a lot of people who would support Obama are probably not adequately sampled.

Basically polls tend to skew things towards angry octogenarians with land line phones, hours of free time, and an ax to grind. Like McCain.

latest poll i just saw - obama 47%, mccain 45%

Aristotle wrote:latest poll i just saw - obama 47%, mccain 45%

Just heard about that. Hell yeah. I the post Palin bump is eroding.

whoever wins, things are def. gonna get interesting.

honor man wrote:whoever wins, things are def. gonna get interesting.

If by "interesting" you mean potentially very very bad, then yes.

I'm hoping for a surpise victory from candidate "Foot Cheese"

TheWoerus wrote:

honor man wrote:whoever wins, things are def. gonna get interesting.

If by "interesting" you mean potentially very very bad, then yes.

thats still interesting though. anything to break the monotony.

honor man wrote:whoever wins, things are def. gonna get interesting.

"oh god oh god we're going to die"?

honor man wrote:

TheWoerus wrote:

honor man wrote:whoever wins, things are def. gonna get interesting.

If by "interesting" you mean potentially very very bad, then yes.

thats still interesting though. anything to break the monotony.

Fuck that dude. You won't be wishing for that break in monotony when we're paying 10 bucks a gallon for gas and going to war against Russia to protect Georgia.

itd be kinda fun to see the world rip itself apart

yeah, it's not like we can't all just kill ourselves when we've had enough.

donnie darko for a write-in?

land lines are for chumps.

It would also be interesting to see if they polled people with VOIP or just straight telco users.

I think Gallup also polls cell phone users.