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Are Cell-Phones Hurting Ron Paul?
22 Jun 2007 11:30 am
His support skews young, and the young have many fewer landlines than the old. We now have actual evidence of the distortion in polling this can create. Josh Claybourne worries here. But, of course, the young have historically not turned up at the polls in large numbers either. I think that's changing, though. One more thought: I wonder if libertarians are more likely to have cell-phones than others?
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