July 23, 2008
The Cellphone Problem

Young, urban people are increasingly only or primarily using cellphones for voice communication. Because people using cellphones are notoriously hard to get a hold of by pollsters, this group is underrepresented in nearly all polls on any major issue or political race.

It just so happens that these same people tend to skew very heavily Democratic.

So any poll you see, question its veracity. Because fully 50% of people under the age of thirty are primarily cellphone users and they are being under sampled, chances are any percentages lean farther to the right than the actual population.