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All areas codes – including those used by cell phones – must be known to pollsters. If the numbers generated are truly random, why would this technique miss mobile phones?

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All areas codes – including those used by cell phones – must be known to pollsters. If the numbers generated are truly random, why would this technique miss mobile phones?

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In most states, mobile phones use unique exchanges (the three numbers following the area code) that are known (or at least knowable) to pollsters. Yet most pollsters intentiaonlly omit the mobile phone exchanges.