Comments on: Cell Phones, Polling and President Truman http://mrosman.com/2008/07/cell-phones-polling-and-president-truman/ Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:42:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: TOM HOLLOWAY http://mrosman.com/2008/07/cell-phones-polling-and-president-truman/comment-page-1/#comment-7 TOM HOLLOWAY Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:32:19 +0000 http://mrosman.com/?p=18#comment-7 Those all obviously have their own problems - most notably that most of those methods would actually undersample the same groups that are currently being oversampled through phone polling, i.e. old, white, conservative voters. The truth is, that for whatever reason, people that are technologically savvy (or young) enough to routinely utilize email, online polls, text messages, etc. tend to be much more liberal in their idiology. So when you conduct an online poll for example, you get a much higher number of liberal respondents than is accurate. That's why Obama has something like seven times as many Facebook friends as McCain does. It's also the reason why most online polls, (i.e. <a href="http://www.surveyusa.com/" rel="nofollow">SurveyUSA</a>) aren't very reliable or well-respected... Those all obviously have their own problems – most notably that most of those methods would actually undersample the same groups that are currently being oversampled through phone polling, i.e. old, white, conservative voters.

The truth is, that for whatever reason, people that are technologically savvy (or young) enough to routinely utilize email, online polls, text messages, etc. tend to be much more liberal in their idiology. So when you conduct an online poll for example, you get a much higher number of liberal respondents than is accurate. That’s why Obama has something like seven times as many Facebook friends as McCain does.

It’s also the reason why most online polls, (i.e. SurveyUSA) aren’t very reliable or well-respected…

]]> By: mrosman http://mrosman.com/2008/07/cell-phones-polling-and-president-truman/comment-page-1/#comment-6 mrosman Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:20:03 +0000 http://mrosman.com/?p=18#comment-6 Great first blog Tom. The question is: What comes next? How will we poll in the future if "land-lines" aren't an effective way to poll? Will e-mail suffice, or facebook polls, or txt polls (American Idol style)? Great first blog Tom.

The question is:
What comes next? How will we poll in the future if “land-lines” aren’t an effective way to poll? Will e-mail suffice, or facebook polls, or txt polls (American Idol style)?

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