<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Buttle&#039;s World]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://buttle.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[clgood]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://buttle.wordpress.com/author/buttle/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Polls: Even More Bogus Than I&nbsp;Thought]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve long been very, very skeptical of polls, especially political polls. Turns out they&#8217;re probably worse than even I thought, because they can&#8217;t even get a representative broad sample. Why not? They only get people <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/edgelings/2008/09/25/forget-red-or-blue-state-are-you-wireless-or-wireline/" target="_blank">willing to answer their land line</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Nope, even if the political pollsters start calling the cell-phone only households right now, they would probably be amazed by how out of touch they are with the new America.  Forget Red State or Blue State, the question is: are you wireless or wireline?</p></blockquote>
<p>Here&#8217;s a stab at a <a href="http://www.pollster.com/blogs/cell_phone_only_households_by.php" target="_blank">state-by-state look</a>. Note that the South seems to be highest.</p>
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