As the U.S. presidential election season winds down, a handful of political polls that include mobile phone users show Democrat Barack Obama beating Republican John McCain by a substantially wider margin than polls that do not include cell phone users.
In polls that extended to cell phones, Obama beat McCain by an average of 10 points versus just 5 points in polls limited to land lines, according to a survey released on Sunday by political blog site FiveThirtyEight.com.
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Have Pollsters Been Dialing the Right Numbers?
Posted by: Jeff Meisner November 3, 2008 01:58 PMAs the U.S. presidential election season winds down, a handful of political polls that include mobile phone users show Democrat Barack Obama beating Republican John McCain by a substantially wider margin than polls that do not include cell phone users.
In polls that extended to cell phones, Obama beat McCain by an average of 10 points versus just 5 points in polls limited to land lines, according to a survey released on Sunday by political blog site FiveThirtyEight.com.