True. But if they do reflect how things stand today, then how come they predicted Gore and Kerry winners based on exit polls?
IIRC Democrats were sending their people to talk to exit pollsters. Funny, I wonder who tipped them off as to where those pollsters would be....
Also the exit polls were done by a monopoly, the VNS or Voter News Service. It’s easy for a monopoly to tilt things since their is no competition.
Current polling is a competitive situation - Rassmussen competing with Gallup with Survey USA with Zogby (yick) etc.