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Do cell phone users without landlines distort political poll results?
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pollster.com
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silentbicycle
on Aug 23, 2008
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patrickg-zill
on Aug 23, 2008
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I would say that in isolation, they do not. The reason is that polls should adjust for a myriad of factors, as the later part of the article makes clear.
vaksel
on Aug 23, 2008
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political polls are pretty useless, they are just there for the media to talk about them. Most of them end up being WAY off.
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