In 2004 the polls showed we would lose from 3 to 19 seats . We gained 3 in the House and 4 in the Senate.
I'm just amazed that how people so quickly forgot!!!
A local paper is reporting 44% of ballots already submitted in Calif.
Absentee Ballots. This means the actual vote wont be known for a few days unless there are large margins from the voting booths.
I would not be surprised that hard-working professionals have voted absentee. I do not because I believe in voting at the booth.
In California, large numbers of public employees get time off to vote and even many public offices close on election day.
I wonder how these facts are being reflected in the Walmart polls reported by the 'professional pollsters'.
Yes, the pollsters' records are so bad that it is hard to believe that anyone pays attention to them --- I remember back when economists' projections were quoted widely in the popular media, and how for many years no one pointed out that these widely-quoted economists had an abysmal record.
Based on the pollsters' individual records, none of them are worth paying the least attention to, much less paying them cash money.
Not a single one of them can point to accurate results that correspond to ballot results over several election cycles.
They also report interim results that are highly suspect: all of the pollsters regularly report wild swings in polling that are extremely unlikely to occur in reality as frequently as these swings are reported.