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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (274236)	10/13/2008 2:27:43 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	1 Recommendation Respond to of 793964

they may be calling the cell phone numbers, but how many recipients actually participate? on the rare occasion when i get an automated or solicitation call on my cell, it gets immediately disconnected....most of the time i don't even answer if i don't recognize the call number nobody wants to waste minutes on unwanted solicitation

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (274236)	10/13/2008 2:50:38 PM
From: Paul Smith	Respond to of 793964

The pollsters all say they do call cell phones. Most cell phone numbers are automatically unlisted numbers. Unlike the fixed line world where you have to pay extra to be kept out of the phone book and fixed line number databases are sold by the phone companies, nobody knows your cell phone number unless you want them to know it. Also, cell phones have incoming number identification built into them so you can see which number is calling you. Many people refuse to answer cell phone calls from numbers they don't recognize and use voice mail to filter access. In the fixed line world, most people are conditioned to automatically answer when the phone rings.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (274236)	10/13/2008 5:31:12 PM
From: FJB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793964

RE:The pollsters all say they do call cell phones. I went through what I think was most of a Rasmussen automated phone poll once on my home phone. When it got to be what seemed like three or four minutes, I became irritated and hung up. In retrospect, I'm surprised by the amount of information I revealed. This call just kept going on and on. It's hard to imagine someone sitting through a poll on their cell. Rasmussen is almost scary in the level of questions. Here is the last daily: rasmussenreports.com