{"id":314,"date":"2008-11-03T10:40:27","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T15:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=314"},"modified":"2008-11-03T10:40:27","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T15:40:27","slug":"the-cellular-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2008\/11\/03\/the-cellular-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"the cellular effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I apologize in advance if this is post is of interest only to survey research nerds.  But I find the following chart from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fivethirtyeight.com\/\">FiveThirtyEight<\/a> fascinating:<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_315\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-315\" style=\"width: 261px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/files\/2008\/11\/cellphones.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/files\/2008\/11\/cellphones-261x300.png\" alt=\"Various Presidential polling sample with those in yellow incorporating cell phones.\" width=\"261\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-315\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Various Presidential polling sample with those in yellow incorporating cell phones.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>It seems to suggest cell phone-only users (presumably young people) are enough to swing most polls about 2 points toward Barack Obama.  No telling how this translates into voter turnout and actually results.  <\/p>\n<p>One more thought: while many may think of cell phone-only users as just young people, it is increasingly common way for working class and poor people have phones.  So, it may include many black and lower income voters, too. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I apologize in advance if this is post is of interest only to survey research nerds. But I find the following chart from FiveThirtyEight fascinating: It seems to suggest cell phone-only users (presumably young people) are enough to swing most polls about 2 points toward Barack Obama. No telling how this translates into voter turnout [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[594],"tags":[760,238,761],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obama-election-politics-president-clinton-conflict-consensus","tag-cell-phones","tag-election-2008","tag-polling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}