Good analogy. When I see someone using what the common person would take to be a scientific approach but actually just using it to justify his own predetermined conclusions, I call it ‘crapscience’. Algores global horsepuckey was the perfect example, and I think we’ve been seeing the same kind of nonsense in these polls for months. Any scientific or statistical credibility goes out the window when you read what we’ve read about how they massage the data. And in my opinion, said massaging is done for two reasons, ideological and financial. The pollsters can tell their clients what they want to hear for a long time, but as the day of truth approaches, they want to end up with a plausible excuse so they can stay in business.
These polls are not pure unbiased science. Polling is a business.
I look at this election this way: the enthusiasm for his excellency is no where near where it was in 08, especially among the younger voters. Add in the black vote is also going to be down for him because of his homo stance. Obamacare is unpopular and should remove some more votes. Meanwhile, the turnout for Romney is far more enthusiastic than it was for McCain whom we pretty much knew was going to lose a month before the election...I don’t sense that feeling of doom this time. I keep hearing that billy boy Clinton is so popular, correct me if I am wrong, but I don’t recall him with monumental popular votes in either of his elections and if he were popular, Obama’s demeaning of Hitlery may detract from any support he gets from billy boy.
So, on balance I have a good feeling about this election, close call perhaps a win by ten EV overall. The thing I dread would be a loss to this pile of crap because if we cannot win this one, the country is lost for good and it will literally be every man for themselves if that gender gap becomes reality.