{"id":14134,"date":"2010-10-07T07:14:10","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T12:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14134"},"modified":"2010-10-07T07:14:10","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T12:14:10","slug":"chanting-points-memo-the-cell-phone-voter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14134","title":{"rendered":"Chanting Points Memo: &#8220;The Cell Phone Voter&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every time a poll comes out favoring Tom Emmer, the leftybloggers chime in &#8220;But wait! \u00a0The poll was a phone survey! Phone surveys always miss cell phone users! \u00a0Nobody under the age of 40 has a land line! \u00a0The poll underpolls Democrats!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sfweekly.com\/thesnitch\/2010\/10\/iphone_tea_party.php\">maybe not<\/a>:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?cat=108\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4017\/4575208799_e7c6e34c94.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A poll released today by the tech policy group CALinnovates.org reveals that iPhone users &#8212; whom we would have firmly placed in the same consumer class as those who sip lattes and munch arugula &#8212; are twice as likely to be influenced by Tea Party ideology as other smartphone customers.<\/p>\n<p>The poll, conducted by the respected Zogby group, found that one in five iPhone users are influenced by the Tea Party &#8212; twice as many as users of the Android or BlackBerry. Subscribers to iPhones are also twice as likely to say Sarah Palin &#8220;speaks for them,&#8221; and 60 percent predict a Republican takeover of Congress this year &#8212; a 15 point margin above other smartphone users.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>And even the other &#8220;smartphone&#8221; users are pretty evenly divided.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time a poll comes out favoring Tom Emmer, the leftybloggers chime in &#8220;But wait! \u00a0The poll was a phone survey! Phone surveys always miss cell phone users! \u00a0Nobody under the age of 40 has a land line! \u00a0The poll underpolls Democrats!&#8221; Well, maybe not: A poll released today by the tech policy group CALinnovates.org [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chanting-points-memo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14143,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14134\/revisions\/14143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}