Nine months is forever in politics—and national polls are absurd at this stage.
However, the mass media just loves the stuff—it is pre-packaged “news” so they don’t have to do actual work.
“and national polls are absurd at this stage.”
Actually I believe they are absurd at any stage. If my recollection is correct, Hitlery believed all the polls that she’d win, right up to the end, then after her loss, and even today. Based on “it’s her turn” and biased polling, she thinks she was the legitimate winner of 2016.
But I agree, it’s pre-packaged news they can cherry pick and spin while sitting at their desks without having to go out and do any real work.