Poll: are you an exclusive cell phone user?

In My Humble Opinion
41

No land line for the last two years.

Yes, voting is going to take place.

{{Snubs nose at Nurse Carmen.}}

42

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)

Anybody else?

43

1.) Yes.
2.) Hell yes.

44

Yes and yes.

45

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.

46

1 Yes

2 Yes

(33 years old)

47

No, that’s 32 out of 41 replies. Clearly, 78% of the population uses only a cell phone. :wink:

48
  1. Nope
  2. Yep. Tonight.
49

Ditto.

50

Yes

Yes (NV- Swing state)

51
  1. Yes
  2. Yes (Colorado)

Why? Is it because of the pollsters? I’ll go sit over here now.

52

Here 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.

53

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.

54
  1. Yes.
  2. Yes, but in a red state much to my dismay…
55

  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)

56

Yes.
Yes.
I’m 38.

57

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.

58

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.

59

  1. Yes.

  2. Live here, but ain’t a citizen.

60
  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.