[max americana]

“Washington Post/ABC News poll”

seriously, even Mad magazine has more credibility...

[relictele]

Reporters (I use the term advisedly) steal their salaries when they write ‘stories’ that involve numerical data.

A table would convey the information more clearly and more quickly, but that of course would prevent the so-called reporters from injecting their personal views and wearing out the Big Book of Media Cliches, especially those relating to elections (dead heat, etc.).

A poll involving registered voters is dodgy, even unrevealing. A poll of all adults is absolutely worthless, especially if you’ve met just a small fraction of all adults, most of whom are lazy, uninformed, misinformed, desperate to appear smart when they are dumb, etc.

Polls of likely voters are barely valid even a month before the election; before the conventions they too are worthless.

[daler]

Sadly, I used to be among the "I don't believe these ridiculous polls " crowd.

unfortunately, I've had to eat way too much crow.

[inkfarmer]

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are in a statistical dead heat in a hypothetical general election matchup, a new poll shows.

Nope. Trump is stomping the Liar in relevant polls.