… It used to be that polls I wrote about were conducted all by phone with live interviewers calling landlines.
That’s no longer the case. A majority of Americans no longer have landlines. As a millennial, I am one of those Americans who only own cell phones.
Pollsters still call phones, but they’re mostly calling cell phones. Even then, though, many Americans who own cell phones aren’t picking up when called. As I explore in the latest episode of my “Margins of Error” podcast, I don’t like answering the phone. In fact, unexpected phone calls make me nervous. Turns out I’m not alone. CONTINUED
Harry Enten, CNN
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