Chanting Points Memo: “The Cell Phone Voter”

Every time a poll comes out favoring Tom Emmer, the leftybloggers chime in “But wait!  The poll was a phone survey! Phone surveys always miss cell phone users!  Nobody under the age of 40 has a land line!  The poll underpolls Democrats!”

Well, maybe not:

A poll released today by the tech policy group CALinnovates.org reveals that iPhone users — whom we would have firmly placed in the same consumer class as those who sip lattes and munch arugula — are twice as likely to be influenced by Tea Party ideology as other smartphone customers.

The poll, conducted by the respected Zogby group, found that one in five iPhone users are influenced by the Tea Party — twice as many as users of the Android or BlackBerry. Subscribers to iPhones are also twice as likely to say Sarah Palin “speaks for them,” and 60 percent predict a Republican takeover of Congress this year — a 15 point margin above other smartphone users.

And even the other “smartphone” users are pretty evenly divided.

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