• lolcatnip@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    Polling hasn't been restricted to land lines for a long time. The people who run polls for a living aren't idiots.

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      1 year ago

      People guard their cell phone numbers a whole lot more than they did land line numbers, and even if the pollster is picking numbers at random, my very next sentence addresses that:

      How many of you don't answer your cell phone if it's from an unknown number?