CAN YOU HEAR US ON NOVEMBER 2ND? GOOD

I am a cellphone-only person right now. My housemate is as well, as is my close friend Alex in Boston. As are a number of other friends of mine.

And what else do we have in common? We're all voting for John Kerry.

Legal restrictions are preventing political pollsters from reaching millions of Americans this election cycle because they rely exclusively on cell phones, according to pollsters and other election observers.

The inability to reach such voters, mainly young people, is contributing to the growing perception that phone surveys are skewed and inaccurate and should become a thing of the past, they argue.

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The Yankee Group reports that while 6 percent of all cell-phone users do not have land lines, 12 percent of wireless owners between the ages of 18 and 24 are cord-cutters.

I'm sure there are plenty of cellphone-only college-age voters in places like, ohhh, Columbus, Gainesville, Ann Arbor, Madison, Tempe and Boulder. We'll be finding our way into your polling models in, let's say, 16 days.