# Poll: are you an exclusive cell phone user? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 15, 2004, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-an-exclusive-cell-phone-user/269313 "2004-10-15T03:20:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-an-exclusive-cell-phone-user/269313/41 "2004-10-15T16:47:42Z")
No land line for the last two years. Yes, voting is going to take place. 1. {{Snubs nose at **Nurse Carmen**.}} ---
**Author:** ![snermy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@snermy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snermy)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-an-exclusive-cell-phone-user/269313/42 "2004-10-15T19:22:36Z")
Okay, so far that’s 32 out of 4,151 SDMB members, or .77% No real conclusion to be drawn, other than that isn’t an insignificant number. Still all comes down to if the unpolled really favor 1 candidate over another, and if it’s a factor in the swing states. Fun with Math: in 2000 we had 105,405,100 voter .77% of that is 811,619 Gore had 543,895 more votes than Bush, but Bush won on electoral college votes 271 to 266. (based on numbers from [http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/2000presgeresults.htm](http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/2000presgeresults.htm)) Anybody else? ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-an-exclusive-cell-phone-user/269313/43 "2004-10-15T19:35:02Z")
1.) Yes. 2.) Hell yes. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Universe\_Lashes\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8797f3/32.png) [@The\_Universe\_Lashes\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Universe_Lashes_Out)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-an-exclusive-cell-phone-user/269313/44 "2004-10-15T20:04:49Z")
Yes and yes. ---
**Author:** ![yola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/48db29/32.png) [@yola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yola)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-an-exclusive-cell-phone-user/269313/45 "2004-10-15T20:11:45Z")
No cell phone here. Not much of a phone talker. Used to be before internet. Have 2 land lines. One for dial-up & one for calls. Yes, I vote. I’m in Alaska and by 3pm the news will start telling us who won hours before our polls close. Doesn’t matter much since we have only two electoral votes. I still vote. ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-an-exclusive-cell-phone-user/269313/46 "2004-10-15T20:16:50Z")
1 Yes 2 Yes (33 years old) ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2004, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-an-exclusive-cell-phone-user/269313/47 "2004-10-15T20:22:06Z")
> [@snermy](#): > > Okay, so far that’s 32 out of 4,151 SDMB members, or .77% No, that’s 32 out of 41 replies. Clearly, 78% of the population uses only a cell phone. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![whistlepig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/73ab20/32.png) [@whistlepig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whistlepig)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-an-exclusive-cell-phone-user/269313/48 "2004-10-16T00:55:01Z")
1. Nope 2. Yep. Tonight. ---
**Author:** ![moi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@moi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moi)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-an-exclusive-cell-phone-user/269313/49 "2004-10-16T04:40:03Z")
> [@Lord Ashtar](#): > > 1.) Yes. > 2.) Hell yes. Ditto. ---
**Author:** ![Ooner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c67d28/32.png) [@Ooner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ooner)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-an-exclusive-cell-phone-user/269313/50 "2004-10-16T05:36:29Z")
Yes Yes (NV- Swing state) ---
**Author:** ![Lynne\_kilii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d26b3c/32.png) [@Lynne\_kilii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynne_kilii)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-an-exclusive-cell-phone-user/269313/51 "2004-10-16T17:49:37Z")
1. Yes 2. Yes (Colorado) Why? Is it because of the pollsters? I’ll go sit over here now. ---
**Author:** ![chula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a4c791/32.png) [@chula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chula)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2004, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-an-exclusive-cell-phone-user/269313/52 "2004-10-16T18:47:57Z")
> [@Lynne\_kilii](#): > > Why? Is it because of the pollsters? I’ll go sit over here now. [Here](http://www.counterpunch.org/price09202004.html) is an article about why polls may be very inaccurate because they are conducted by phone. It seems likely that only a narrow segment of the population actually regularly answers their home phones and answers questions from strangers calling. ---
**Author:** ![smaft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@smaft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smaft)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-an-exclusive-cell-phone-user/269313/53 "2004-10-17T16:37:44Z")
> [@Malodorous](#): > > …while I’ve never known anyone older then 30 to not have a landline… Well, you don’t know me. 38, got rid of the landline two years ago (thx to cable internet). Oh, and my absentee ballot’s hitting the mailbox today. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Stilettos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/fbc32d/32.png) [@Red\_Stilettos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Stilettos)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-an-exclusive-cell-phone-user/269313/54 "2004-10-17T18:32:37Z")
1. Yes. 2. Yes, but in a red state much to my dismay… ---
**Author:** ![smartini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@smartini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smartini)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-an-exclusive-cell-phone-user/269313/55 "2004-10-17T19:35:51Z")
1. No, but close since none of my landline phones work worth a flip 2. Yes/Yes (either way, I make it a point to avoid telemarketers and pollsters as I think both are a waste of my time) ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-an-exclusive-cell-phone-user/269313/56 "2004-10-17T21:17:29Z")
Yes. Yes. I’m 38. ---
**Author:** ![kurivaim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7c8e57/32.png) [@kurivaim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kurivaim)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-an-exclusive-cell-phone-user/269313/57 "2004-10-17T21:26:08Z")
Yes, and yes again. However I presume that I’m in a different situation from most of the rest of you. I’m an exclusive cell phone user because my dorm here in Estonia doesn’t even give me the option of having a landline (not that I’d probably have a landline anyway). And I’m voting, but by absentee ballot (just got it in the mail on Friday), so I’m throwing off your poll results in a fresh and new way. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-an-exclusive-cell-phone-user/269313/58 "2004-10-17T21:32:34Z")
I’m the opposite of an exclusive cell phone user —I don’t own one, don’t want one, own a cellphone-signal blocker to stop other folks from using them if they have irritating cellphone beeps or try to use them during movies or concerts, etc. I intent on voting (will absolutely positively vote unless I get hit by a truck), but I am not in a swing state. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-an-exclusive-cell-phone-user/269313/59 "2004-10-18T05:49:36Z")
1. Yes. 2. Live here, but ain’t a citizen. ---
**Author:** ![MindWanderer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@MindWanderer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindWanderer)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-an-exclusive-cell-phone-user/269313/60 "2004-10-18T06:02:38Z")
1. Yes 2. Yes I went with cellphone only to save money. 80 percent of my calls are long distance and its a lot better deal to call longdistance on a cellphone with a set number of hours per month than a landline with x cents a minute. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-an-exclusive-cell-phone-user/269313.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-an-exclusive-cell-phone-user/269313.md?page=4)