I know this has been discussed ad naseum, but in light of the erratic and confounding polls of late I'd like to discuss the following:
1. When reviewing the polls of the pollsters that only use robocalls (Gravis, Rasmussen, PPP), the race looks very tight. Can I still assume the findings are missing a disproportionate number of young and minority voters? No landlines...
2. When I look at the returns for the polling firms that do include live interviews (Marist, Quinnipac, NBC, CBS) they seem to make more "sense".
3. Lastly, it's Gallup time. Gallup is weighted heavily because of the size of the sample, etc. but it's accuracy is also taken into account in the weighting....and Gallup's accuracy has been horrible the last few cycles. So, why weight it so heavily?? http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/...
There is a lot of talk about dem/repub skewing. Why aren't people talking about landlines, cell phones and prepaid cell phones and the effect they're having on the polls? The Research is scant...was this issue already settled and I missed it?