Obama likely doing better in polls than projected

[Scriptor Ignotus]

I base this assertion largely on this link:

http://www.suntimes.com/news/sweet/570906,092307sweetforweb.article

"Those hidden souls in the Obama army Plouffe writes about are younger voters who escape pollsters because they have cell phones, not land lines. Plouffe is depending heavily on this demographic to win the Iowa caucus — if the campaign team for Obama can deliver them."


I am a 20-something professional that has a cell phone but no land line. I'm supporting Obama and will be voting for him in the primary. I suspect dozens of other supporters I know and deal with here in NYC are the same way. Extrapolate that across the city, across the county, state and country, and there probably thousands and thousands of Obama supporters not being counted. Of course, this holds true for the other candidates, but I suspect Obama claims more of these "shadow voters". The flip side is that young people are historically not as dependable a voting demographic, as say senior citizens. If Obama upsets Clinton in any of the primary states, look to this as the reason why.