New Poll of Clinton Supporters Finds Strong Support for Clinton!
Not from the Onion, but you have to remove a few layers of skin before you get a whiff of the full aroma from the new Loras Poll:
Nice work Hillary! Or is it?
Tucked away in the last paragraphs of the methodology notes is this fact:
"Survey included both landlines and cell phones (with an approximate 70-30 split)."
Now, I know that pollsters have struggled with polling cell phones, but this is just embarrassing - 70% Landlines?
Someone please wake up the folks over at Loras and have them read this news from the CDC, dated last December:
CDC: Nearly half of American homes no longer have landlines
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a new survey Tuesday, showing that nearly half of all American households now use only cell phones rather than older landlines. In total, 47 percent of the 21,000 households queried were cell-only, 41 percent use both, just 8 percent use just a landline, and 3.4 percent have no phone at all.
Accounting for demographics, the results are even more staggering -- 71 percent of 24-34 year-olds use only their cells. Additionally, renters were far more likely to not have landlines than landlords and people living with non-family members went cell-only 85 percent of the time.
The CDC has been tracking these phone trends since 2003. It does so because much of the CDC's other survey work occurs over the phone and increasingly stringent laws governing phone surveys threatens to hinder those efforts.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/12/01/cdc-nearly-half-of-american-homes-no-longer-have-landlines/
More data from the CDC can be found here:
More than two-thirds of adults aged 25–29 (71.3%) and aged 30-34 (67.8%) lived in households with only wireless telephones. These rates are greater than the rate for those 18–24 (59.4%).
The percentage of adults living with only wireless telephones decreased as age increased beyond 35 years: 56.6% for hose 5–44; 40.8% for those 45–64; and 19.3% for those 65 and over
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhis/earlyrelease/wireless201512.pdfIn effect, the age group that Bernie wins at a 2-1 ratio ends up represented by only about 30%-35% of those polled. Hillary's demo - who are increasingly MORE likely to use a landline - are represented disproportionately in this poll, so much so that you have to question whether Loras knew they were focusing their polling on Hillary's supporters, or are just not very good at their jobs.
Saying "Hillary's is supported by the people that traditionally support Hillary" is like saying that water is wet. It doesn't reveal any new information, or show any change in opinions, and should be filed away accordingly.
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