Comments on: Dialing It In http://www.eckernet.com/2008/09/dialing_it_in.html Pissing you off and making you laugh since 2002 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:55:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Marty http://www.eckernet.com/2008/09/dialing_it_in.html/comment-page-1#comment-4159 Marty Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:55:18 +0000 http://www.eckernet.com/?p=2506#comment-4159 More importantly, Obama was able to get a youthful demographic with his stunt. Young people don't use landlines, they have cell phones and that's it. Good databases of cell numbers is hard to find. By doing this, his campaign can not only contact the people in their databases, they create a new database of people who have been difficult to track down. This is also why polling numbers this year need to be taken with a grain of salt. the 18-24 graphic is going to be underrepresented or improperly represented in these polls. More importantly, Obama was able to get a youthful demographic with his stunt. Young people don’t use landlines, they have cell phones and that’s it. Good databases of cell numbers is hard to find. By doing this, his campaign can not only contact the people in their databases, they create a new database of people who have been difficult to track down.

This is also why polling numbers this year need to be taken with a grain of salt. the 18-24 graphic is going to be underrepresented or improperly represented in these polls.

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