Comments on: Will cell phones rescue Barack Obama?

By: Buckeye State Leans McCain | Adam's Blog

Buckeye State Leans McCain | Adam's Blog — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 04:37:46 +0000

[...] younger voters who use cellphones only and can’t be polled. The problem, as Ed Morrissey writes, “If this concern had merit, we should have seen Obama overperforming against polling during [...]

By: Buckeye State Leans McCain

Buckeye State Leans McCain — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:54:37 +0000

By: MarkTheGreat

MarkTheGreat — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:54:23 +0000

To vote for Obama, send a text to 65432.

If it’s any harder than that, the youth ain’t gonna bother.

Okakis ‘08!! (As seen on IMAO)

innominatus on September 8, 2008 at 5:20 PM

Sounds like a delicious rumour to start on Nov. 3rd.

By: MarkTheGreat

MarkTheGreat — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:45:31 +0000

Why won’t pollsters call cell phones?

Cell phone users are charged for both incoming and outgoing calls.

By: SouthernGent

SouthernGent — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:20:26 +0000

I’m cell phone only and voting for McCain-Palin.

By: neocon hippie

neocon hippie — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:05:36 +0000

Depending on which classification is used, the current age of GenX ranges from 27-28 to 44-48.

The ObamaNation youth, which may or may not turn out in large numbers, are Millennials, not GenXers.

By: debi118

debi118 — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:37:51 +0000

Count me in as another cell-phone only voter for Mccain. And I am well into my middle-age.

By: William Teach

William Teach — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:29:56 +0000

Obama cell phone supporter: “stop sending me friggin’ text messages! You’re killing my bill, you beatches!”

By: Mojave Mark

Mojave Mark — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:21:16 +0000

Isn’t it delightful to watch how the MSM spins their candidate’s downward spiral. It’s just schadenfreudelicious.

By: Queen0fCups

Queen0fCups — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:15:28 +0000

I feel sorry for the people who gave Obama their cell phone numbers – on election day they will be inundated.

He better not call them before noon.

By: InTheBellyoftheBeast

InTheBellyoftheBeast — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:04:04 +0000

BTW, Didn’t The One piss off all of his cell-phone demographic when he “leaked” Biden’s lame name via the MSM? As I recall (something Hillary had trouble doing), they signed up in droves to get the text from His Obamaness, and were disappointed when nothing happened. Maybe they lost interest when the candidate of change behaved in the old school way.

By: grdred944

grdred944 — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:38:53 +0000

When Obama is up in the poll it is because the young people demand change and a voice. When he is down it is because polsters are only calling old people with landlines.

I’m telling ya, they are already trotting out the excuses and it is not even September 15th. I had been saying 53% – 46% but I may have to rethink that.

By: McCain Closing In: Leading in 2 Battleground States. Tied in Florida. « The Rhetorican

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:27:14 +0000

[...] Disbelief among Obama [...]

By: Hening

Hening — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:12:28 +0000

Have you seen John Kerry’s ads this year?

One has Goracal promoting him as saving the planet from global warming, and the other is how old people will freeze to death this winter if he isn’t elected.

I guess he can have it both ways.

By: Jdripper

Jdripper — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:00:57 +0000

If McCain builds a lead and is leading going into election day the youth vote will be more concerned about where the next “kegger” is then the election.

By: InTheBellyoftheBeast

InTheBellyoftheBeast — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:23:25 +0000

Ah, so cell phones are the latest “reason” the polls are not providing the data the DNC is looking for. Good to know. Over the weekend I had lunch with all four of our cell-only, 19-29 year old kids. They cannot understand the Obama thing, and don’t know anyone their age who is supporting The One. They do have jobs, so maybe that is why they see through all of the BS from the Dems.

Isn’t my poll as valid as the others? I asked all of them who they supported regardless of party affiliation.

By: Tzetzes

Tzetzes — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:11:54 +0000

Vote… or… DIE!

By: forest

forest — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:05:19 +0000

My wife and I only have cell phones, and we’re both voting for McCain. McCain will be the first Republican my wife’s ever voted for also…

BadgerHawk on September 8, 2008 at 5:15 PM

Same here. Cell only and we’re voting for McCain.

By: BostonBeatnik

BostonBeatnik — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:04:29 +0000

Ron Paul supporters had similar hopes. It wasn’t to be.

Absolutely 100% true, I remember that well.

Also…

I’ve been watching many PUMA blogs. They’re going nuts over Palin. They love her.

By: Kensington

Kensington — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:35:49 +0000

Did the youth vote show up in ’06?

By: fossten

fossten — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:35:04 +0000

Ron Paul supporters had similar hopes. It wasn’t to be.

By: Sekhmet

Sekhmet — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:31:33 +0000

Youths don’t vote, mostly because they are youths. Between the ages of 18 and 24, kids are busy trying to get the hang of being grown up, and voting often falls by the wayside.

By: profitsbeard

profitsbeard — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:28:03 +0000

Obama’s hanging by his Blackberries.

By: BillH

BillH — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:27:46 +0000

Correct me if I’m wrong, but don’t you need a credit history to have a cell phone? That doesn’t really desctibe Obama’s base.

BuckNutty on September 8, 2008 at 5:17 PM

Not totally. Most plans do have a credit check, but as I found out “the hard way” (when I first got my phone, I had no credit rating at all), just so long as there was nothing bad on the report, I was able to get a regular cell plan. That may not be quite so easy today (6 years later), but you can get a month-to-month plan from Virgin, AT&T, Boost, and Cricket. You can also get a pay-as-you-go plan, but those tend to be really restricted, at least from what I know.

By: byteshredder

byteshredder — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:26:10 +0000

Will cell phones rescue Barack Obama?

Nothing is going to save this POS from the political trash heap. Biraq Hussein Oblahblah, will be a half billion dollar DNC back disaster!