There has been an explosion of polls this presidential election year. Through yesterday, there have been 728 national polls with head-to-head match ups of McCain and B. Hussein Obama. In 2004, there were just 239 such critters. One reason may be that this campaign season has gone on longer than married life!
But, don't let the polls affect your vote. They were wrong in 2000 and again in 2004. Some polls are sponsored by reputable news organizations (I know, the term "reputable news organization" would seem to be an oxymoron today), while others are done by publicity-hungry universities and others by outright political hacks.
Right now, all the polls show that B. Hussein Obama ahead of John McCain, but the margins vary widely in part because some polls use an "expanded", to put it kindly, definition of a likely voter. However, if you look at the 'internals' of many of these polls, you would discover that there is an over-representation of respondents who identify themselves as Democrat as opposed to Republican or Independent. Even with this over-weighting, B. Hussein is only ahead, on average 3 points. With more Democrats being polled than Republicans, one would wonder why B. Hussein is not much, much further ahead. What this should tell you is that there are many Democrats that are not voting for "The One", despite the pre-coronation given Obama by the liberal press. The fact that Obama is still out beating the bushes instead of 'measuring the drapes' at the White House is because his private polls tell him that he is not the shoo-in that he would like us to believe.
The apparent manipulation of many of these polls is an overt effort to suppress the vote. Your vote!
Folks, don't let the polls affect your vote. This election is not over yet and the sweetest revenge for this interminable onslaught on our senses would be to prove all these pollsters wrong next Tuesday in the only poll that really counts.
