The Cellphone Effect

I nabbed this from Nate Silver over at FiveThirtyEight if you haven’t checked out his site you should, Electoral Projections done right.

These are Barack Obama’s leads in the likely voter models presently included in the Real Clear Politics average, plus the Research 2000 poll which they arbitrarily exclude.

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The polls in the Cingular-y orange color include cellphones in their samples; the polls in gray do not. The cellphone polls have Obama ahead by an average of 9.4 points; the landline-only polls, 5.1 points.

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3 Responses to The Cellphone Effect

  1. Laoch says:

    It’s funny, I used to play poker on one of the boats in Indiana with Nate. He has produced a great website.

  2. cilicious says:

    I love FiveThirtyEight. My kid was all excited because pictures of his friends in Tallahassee were posted at the site.
    One more day!

  3. Elaine says:

    Laoch & Cil – it is a great website! And thankfully one more day.

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