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Three Nat'l Polls Include Cell Phone Sampling

20 May 2008 01:26 pm

Per Pollster.com: An overlooked development: joining Gallup in including cell phone samples in its national surveys are CBS News/New York Times and the Pew Research Center.

The problem: us folks who don't have home phones can't get phone calls from the automated polling companies like Rasmussen and SurveyUSA. Readers of this blog know that I'm skeptical of those types of surveys, but not indelibly so: it may well be that, after a few cycles worth of data and analysis, the automatic surveys turn out to be as valid (as opposed to as "accurate") as telephonic live person surveyors.

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