Is Obama Toast? Handicapping the 2012 Election

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by 1480

It's a sad state of affairs when polls sway opinions rather than do what they were ideally meant for, show what people think.

It is because people look toward poll results as a tool to form their own opinions or to be more accurate to validate their opinions.

Every notice that a poll that disagrees with MY opinion is flawed somehow but those polls that agree with my opinion reflect the people's true feelings.

Weird huh?

Like August said, there is only one poll that really matters and that is on the second Tuesday in November and according to the history of that poll about 50% of the people really don't care one way or the other.