They’re mainly young, single and urban, and they move frequently. Pollsters call them “cell phone only” because they don’t own traditional phones. They also see them as a polling challenge.
“What the industry doesn’t know how to do is how to statistically balance those reached by cell phones with those reached on land lines,” said Paul Lavrakas, a Nielsen researcher.
7-MONTH-OLD ASSAULTED: An infant who prosecutors say was sexually assaulted is expected to make a full recovery, Houston officials said Thursday. The child’s parents, Ivan Castaneda, 22, and Donna Marie Norman, 19, have been jailed and charged with injury to a child.
RULING AGAINST GAY COUPLES: An Ithaca, N.Y., judge on Thursday ruled against 25 same-sex couples who challenged the state’s anti-gay marriage law after they were denied marriage licenses.
WITHOUT A TRACE: The New York medical examiner’s office says it has exhausted all efforts to identify the remains of those killed at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, confirming the heartbreaking truth for many families.
3 KILLED IN COURT RAMPAGE: David Hernandez Arroyo Sr. opened fire Thursday in the town square of Tyler, Texas, wounding four and killing his ex-wife and another man before he was shot to death.
WAL-MART NOT WELCOME: Wal- Mart will not be setting up shop in New York City after all. The developer that had planned to build the city’s first Wal-Mart dropped the retailer as a result of fierce opposition from labor unions, small businesses, neighbors and politicians.
MAN KILLS 2 KIDS, SELF: Afather stabbed his two children and wounded three others with a hunting knife before committing suicide, police said. Clarence Lacey Moore, 24, and the five children were found in a home in Columbus, Ga., on Wednesday, police said.
