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Students Hit the Voting Booth in Pennsylvania

By | 11.04.08 | 4:50 pm

Pittsburgh, Pa. — For hundreds of college students across this city, voting is an exercise in multitasking.

Students read, work on crossword and Sudoku puzzles, text-message and email on hand-held devices and listen to music as they wait up to an hour to cast their first votes in a presidential More…

Pew: Cellular Polling Bias Hurts Obama

By | 09.24.08 | 2:29 pm

Here’s another reason to doubt the blizzard of polls that dominate political talk.

Pew, the respected non-partisan research organization, reports that polls that exclude cell phones may be a bit off — and effectively biased against Sen. Barack Obama. (H/T Michael Connery, and Mark Blumenthal has a good More…