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Kathleen A. Frankovic, director of surveys at CBS News, said that without intending to dial cellphones, its interviewers "already complete as many as 2percentt of our interviews per poll on cellphones, and we are experimenting this fall with dialing cellphone samples".
Republican margins were roughly five percentage points greater on the weighted landline only samples (+12.7) than on the combined landline and cellphone samples (+7.6), with the latter estimates coming very close to the actual results of the 2010 elections.
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Mr. Lavrakas said that he could not "imagine how anyone can feel safe in planning their election coverage without including cellphone sampling for the 2008 election".
Issues being reviewed by Gallup range from ones pollsters have dealt with for decades, including likely voter screening, to ones that have only begun presenting challenges in recent election cycles, like cellphone sampling.
These are the first polls to be released since the South Carolina contest and involve live telephone interviews of a cross-section of Florida residents that include a cellphone sample.
The SurveyUSA poll employed live interviewers for its cellphone sample and an automated methodology for the landline calls.
Researchers, including the New York Times/CBS News poll will test that by incorporating cellphones in samples.
We keep track of which polling firms include cellphones in their samples and which do not.
Whether polling firms include cellphones in their samples seems to make a difference of about 2 percentage points, for instance.
In one of the forecasts, I ran the numbers based solely on polls that do include cellphones in their samples.
The most unambiguously bearish sign for Mr. Romney are the poor polls he has been getting in swing states from pollsters that use a thorough methodology and include cellphones in their samples.
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