The Cell Phone Issue | Planet Waves for the evening of Nov. 2 Well, leave it to Jimmy Breslin to dig out this little bit of news. It seems that those Bush-Kerry polls, which have been remarkably, well, the word is flat, as the nation and the world have plunged into disaster, were missing something: the people who use cell phones. Standard polling, because it uses demographic statistics in its sampling (age, location, income bracket, to name a few factors) leaves out cellular phones. You never know where someone is going to pick up their phone, so that doesn't fit the old rules of statistics. In the article you'll read below, the legendary Jimmy Breslin, a columnist whose name is associated with New York and the word "newspaper," got hold of the stats. If you sample only cell phone users, John Kerry crushes Bush in this election like a paper cup. That's a lot of voters -- and a lot of people have cell phones: there are 170 million in use in the US at last count. This is a perfect example of old paradigm thinking versus new: a massive factor being left out of the discussion. Now this is good news, on the one hand, if you support Kerry. It is equally infuriating because for the past God knows how many weeks, we've been told the election was neck and neck. This may have made people who favor responsible use of your tax dollars, sane use of the military and coherent sentences work a little harder. But it also pumped up rather unnaturally the credibility of King George II for those who need to know they are voting with the herd. I leave the rest to Jimmy. But it turns out that this is his last regular article after a career that must span 40 years. New York will not be the same without his regular contributions to Newsday. Jimmy -- thanks for teaching the rest of us how to do journalism. You know we love you.