i understand people are infatuated with statistics, polls, and so forth. don't these election polls, blowing in with the wind, swaying back and forth mysteriously, usually demonstrating utterly meaningless data, regularly falling within their own margins of error, consistently demonstrate their own irrelevance?
the corporate media would rather write and talk endlessly about polls than discuss substantive issues before the country, like how many people are dying in iraq; how many lies are being told the american people by politicians; how the nation is mortgaging its future; how health care, education, the infrastructure, are going down the tubes; how joblessness and poverty is increasing; and on and on.
it seems this material about polls is a distraction and pissing in a rain storm.
R
At 07:13 AM 9/17/2004, you wrote:
>[this makes no sense - the Pew and Gallup polls were taken at almost the
>same time, yet the first has the race dead even, and the second has W 13
>points ahead]
>
>Politics
>Poll Finds Bush Lead Surging Among Likely Voters
>
>Fri Sep 17, 2:04 AM ET
>
>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) has surged to a
>13-point lead over Democratic challenger John Kerry (news - web sites)
>among likely voters, according to a new USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll released
>on Friday.