VA-Emerson: Clinton +1

[pbrower2a]

Lots of polls with an apparent and large house advantage for Republicans?

English only, landline only.

[pbrower2a]

44% Clinton (D)
43% Trump (R)
11% Johnson (L)
3% Green (G)

Link.

Looks like Emerson has been busy lately, lol.

Busier than everyone else? Busier than everyone else combined, except for some advocacy-group polling by PPP? Something could be fishy here.

Quinnipiac and Marist at most poll three states at a time, and then they rotate among the states in question.  But Emerson College is polling every imaginable swing state?  This looks about as kosher as a ham-and-cheese sandwich with clam sauce on the side, with wine made with libations to Bacchus. 

[pbrower2a]

With landlines one has an obsolescent technology. If something were to take out the landline grid, then it would not be rebuilt except for highly-specialized purposes. Prime example: after the Second Gulf War that took out the Iraqi telephone structure, the Kurds in the autonomous (and effectively independent, anti-fascist part of Iraq) went practically 100% cellular. Such was cheaper, safer, and more reliable than land lines.  Reliance upon demographics wedded to some obsolete technology implies a distorted sample.

Normal consumer use is not one of those specialized uses. Reliance on landlines will soon be as obsolete as using pre-recorded VHS tapes for entertainment.

[pbrower2a]

I am talking about quality and reliability. I don't have a landline phone at home, because reliability and quality isn't as important for households. It is important for businesses and will remain in use there.

It is vital for the military and government and will never be abandoned.

Where the telephone must remain stationary, or for someone who has difficulty using a cellular phone (typically someone very old), landlines will survive. 

One security company now uses cell phones as its means of reporting residential break-ins because crooks can cut telephone wires.

The unreliability of a cell phone, other than failing to pay for the service, is failing to keep the phone charged. Communication on a cell phone can be very, very good.