General election polls are meaningless at this point in the cycle. Pools showed Carter beating Reagan by a very comfortable margin at this point in the 1980 cycle and the same sort of data was touted as the reason why the Republicans would be crazy to nominate him.
I’ve yet to have anyone explain just how these polls account for the Electoral College.
Polling 8-12 people in each state really means little.
And, like you said, it’s still 8 months out