[Barlowmaker]

I agree. I think I read that in the 1980 Reagan-Carter matchup, there were 23 opinion polls taken - total.

The news outlets are now engaging in polls to MAKE news, so they are unreliable on their face.

[COEXERJ145]

The problem with these almost daily polls is they sample so few people that there is no way to gage the nation's real opinion from 500-1000 "adults". Even with the state polls of 500-1000 people, there is no guarantee that the poll is accurate.

A lot of these polling organizations have a list of people they call on a regular basis so they can get a poll out whenever it is needed. Of course it is easy to manipulate such a list to get the desired result.