>Were Kerry to win by a landslide, there will be a brief moment while
>the pundits and spinners pause for some extremely public soul-searching
>and self-flagellation. Then they will go back to dispensing the same
>idiocies that earned them their sinecures in the first place.
If that happens - a big if, of course - the polling industry could be (emphasis on the subjunctive) in real trouble. It would mean that all their techniques, both in sampling and number-crunching, are obsolete. Could be interesting.
Doug