No doubt about it, polls suck. Polls are constantly changing, often wrong, and don’t tell the whole story about what is happening in an election.
Polls suck. I talked with John McCain on the phone tonight and he agrees with me. He’s got his own problems in the national polls. From what I can tell after reading yet another poll on the presidential race, Rudy Giuliani and Mike Huckabee are neck and neck. John McCain, the candidate with no neck, is drifting back to 4th place, well behind Mitt Romney.
How did Huckabee get so high in the polls? He doesn’t have much money. I know I should know this, but I still can’t figure out what appeal these hick state governors have to voters. At least Bill was tall and good looking. Who wants a President with “huck” in his name? Come on, people!
What bothers me about public polling? The results and the methodology. The results are only good if you’re comfortably ahead in the race. At that point methodology doesn’t matter. If it’s a tight race, or you’re behind, then methodology is screwed up.
For example, the latest CNN-Opinion Research telephone poll that shows me leading Obama nationwide was made with less than 900 registered voters. How good can a poll be when it’s made up of answers from only 467 registered Democrats all over the country? That’s worthless.
Worse than worthless is that the spooks at CNN blather all over the place that Obama is closing in on me in the national race, according to their latest poll. Hey, media pundits. There is NO national race. Take a political science class or something. It’s a state-by-state race, Wolf. Read my lips. Winner. Take. All.
The only poll that counts is the last one.
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