I told you so--Making call on sham of political polling by Jimmy Breslin

[NMDemDist2]

September 16, 2004

September 16, 2004

Anybody who believes these national political polls are giving you facts is a gullible fool.

Any editors of newspapers or television news shows who use poll results as a story are beyond gullible. On behalf of the public they profess to serve, they are indolent salesmen of falsehoods.

This is because these political polls are done by telephone. Land-line telephones, as your house phone is called.

The telephone polls do not include cellular phones. There are almost 169 million cell phones being used in America today - 168,900,019 as of Sept. 15, according to the cell phone institute in Washington.

lots more at link....

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/columnists/ny-nybres163973220sep16,0,5538561.column

[teryang]

1. Interesting column- one right, one wrong

The major point is completely correct. Who uses land lines for anything but dial up? You simply can't get through to many middle class homes. I like it that way, don't you?

He's wrong about older people. The older you are, the more likely you are to vote democratic. It is the young, inexperienced and invincible, that fall to the siren's song of social darwinism in the most inequitable modern nation on earth.

[abrock]

2. This is the MOST important line in the article, right here:

"Older people complain about Kerry's performance as a candidate. Younger people don't want to get shot at in a war that most believe, and firmly, never should have started because it was started with a president lying."


BINGO. Thats why Bush is out.

[dbt]

4. Right on, abrock.

Young people are about 2-1 Democrat and they're about to vote in unprecedented numbers. For them, a vote for bu$h is a vote for the Draft.

And the hell of it is, the young are being completely missed by all the big-name pollsters.

:bounce:
dbt

[NoSunWithoutShadow]

3. Thank You for the article

I've been thinking this for months.