SurveyUSA: "Obama leads by 17 points among cell-phone respondents."

[berni_mccoy]

FWIW, I don't have a landline. I believe this is a significant gem hidden in the current polling data and exposed in this survey. Many, many more people today do not have land lines.

http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReport.aspx?g=564b76d9-2e24-4689-a7a6-8b760fc858a6

Ohio Likely Voter Survey, Obama 45, Romney 44

Survey includes people who have already voted.

Huge Gender Gap in OHIO of 9 points for Obama.

With Voting Underway In Oh-So-Important Ohio, Romney Nose-to-Nose with Obama:
In an election for Ohio's 18 vital electoral votes today, 10/09/12, one week after Buckeye voting began and 4 weeks till votes are counted, Barack Obama is at 45% to Mitt Romney's 44%, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted for WCMH-TV, NBC4 in Columbus. Obama's advantage is within the survey's possible sources of error and may or may not be significant.

* "Optimistic" Ohio voters back Obama 4:1. "Worried" Ohio voters back Romney 2:1. "Angry" Ohio voters back Romney 3:1.
* Romney leads among voters who are married. Obama leads among voters who are single, divorced or widowed.
* Greater Dayton and greater Cincinnati favor Romney. Greater Columbus, greater Toledo and greater Cleveland favor Obama.
* Union households break for Obama. Non-union households split.
* Evangelicals vote for Romney. Non-evangelicals vote for Obama.
* Independents break for Romney. Moderates break for Obama.
* Voters who say abortion should be legal in every case vote overwhelmingly for Obama.
* Voters who say abortion should be illegal in every case vote overwhelmingly for Romney.
* Voters who earn less than $60,000 a year vote for Obama. Voters who earn more than $60,000 a year vote for Romney.
* Ohio voters, narrowly, say Romney would do a better job balancing the federal budget.
* Ohio voters split on who would do better at keeping America safe.
* Ohio voters say Obama is more in touch with the average person.

More at the link.

UPDATE: Adding the fact that more than 1 in 4 households in America no longer uses land line:

http://www.acainternational.org/products-wireless-and-landline-phones-6488.aspx

More than one of every four American homes (26.6%) deserted their landline telephone service and now rely exclusively on wireless service. Approximately 24.9% of all adults (approximately 57 million) live in households with only wireless telephones. A total of 29% of all children live in households with only wireless telephones. (Source: Wireless Substitution: Early Release of Estimates From the National Health Interview Survey, January-June 2010, Department of Health and Human Services, National Center for Health Statistics, December 2010.)

[DemocratSinceBirth]

1. What I Immediately Take Away From That Is To Be Suspicious Of Pollsters Who Exclude Cell Phone Users

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[tjdee]

2. It's usually younger people without landlines.

But my guess is that more younger people are not voting, so it's a wash in that sense IMO.

[berni_mccoy]

4. More than 1 in 4 American Households has no land line

http://www.acainternational.org/products-wireless-and-landline-phones-6488.aspx

More than one of every four American homes (26.6%) deserted their landline telephone service and now rely exclusively on wireless service. Approximately 24.9% of all adults (approximately 57 million) live in households with only wireless telephones. A total of 29% of all children live in households with only wireless telephones. (Source: Wireless Substitution: Early Release of Estimates From the National Health Interview Survey, January-June 2010, Department of Health and Human Services, National Center for Health Statistics, December 2010.)

[lalalu]

8. True

Most young adults do not have landlines if they have their own apartment. My son just moved into his own place and is in his early twenties and has no intention of getting a landline. The same with most of his friends. I only have a landline because over the years when there were emergencies or blackouts the landline was the only thing working. So I keep it for an emergency and basically out of habit.
BTW, my son is definitely an Obama supporter.

[justiceischeap]

3. I'm in my early 40's and use a cell phone only nt.

[DemzRock]

5. I have both landline and cell phones...

I rarely answer either unless I know the caller.

[lalalu]

9. The same with me!!

Great minds....

[sadbear]

6. My parents, who are in their 60s, only have cell phones.

And if it's true for MY parents, it has to be true for a lot more older people, too.

[OldDem2012]

7. I'm 61, and we have cell-phones only. I'm experimenting with Google Talk....

....which appears to work very well.

When the economy went bad, we started looking at things we could do without. The landline was the first to go.

[marlakay]

10. We are 56 & 62 and cell only

Have been since we built house 7 yrs ago. Tried to put in landline a year later and only calls were sales because everyone was used to our cells so we turned it off after only a few months.