I am forced into keeping a land line for Internet access, but I personally don't know anybody else who has one.
- Bill
------------------------------------------------------------------------ Does it matter that many polls -- including the vast majority that we are currently watching at the state and congressional district level -- do not call Americans who use only a cell phone and thus lack landline telephone service? Yes it does. It creates a growing bias that appears to benefit Republican candidates. That's the message of a new analysis released this afternoon by the Pew Research Center.
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/13/pew-research-cell-phone-p_n_761760.html> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Doug Henwood wrote:
> <http://thehill.com/house-polls/thehill-poll-week-2/124177-the-hill-poll-swing-district-voters-more-likely-to-see-dems-as-dominated-by-extremists->
>
>
> POLL: Voters more likely to see Democrats as dominated by extremists By Alexander
> Bolton - 10/14/10 06:00 AM ET
>
> Likely voters in battleground districts see extremists as having a more dominant
> influence over the Democratic Party than they do over the GOP.
>
> This result comes from The Hill 2010 Midterm Election Poll, which found that 44
> percent of likely voters say the Democratic Party is more dominated by its extreme
> elements, whereas 37 percent say it’s the Republican Party that is more dominated
> by extremists.
>
> The revelations in a survey of 10 toss-up congressional districts across the
> country point to problems for Democrats, who are trying to motivate a
> disillusioned base and appeal to independents moving to the GOP ahead of the Nov.
> 2 election.
>
> The polling firm Penn, Schoen and Berland conducted the survey, contacting 4,047
> likely voters by phone between Oct. 2 and Oct. 7. The margin of error for this
> sample is 1.5 percent.
>
> More than one in every five Democrats (22 percent) in The Hill’s survey said their
> party was more dominated than the GOP by extreme views. The equivalent figure
> among Republicans is 11 percent.
>
> ... ___________________________________
> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk
>