Are you bragging or complaining? You seem to be a big fan of polls since you seem to think yourself clever with your banal “0.5%” quip. I saw a poll on another thread that stated the Breck Girl is ahead of Fred by double digits. All Polls, and especially those taken at this point are just arbitrary self-fulfilling prophecies in that they manipulate and confuse an often uninformed and apathetic electorate. What is the +-% you always see in regards to the polls? I mean +-% what? Garbage in, garbage out. Take any poll, how many in the poll heard a name they recognized and said, “that one”? How many could name 4 or 5 candidates from either party? How would the people have answered who didn’t answer their phones or wish to participate in a survey? How sure were they about the candidate they chose? On a scale of 1 to 10, how likely were they to vote for that candidate? Were the people polled really Republican and really registered voters? Why is it always 500-1000 participants? If it’s as simple as a phone call why not do 10,000? You can rightly say, “hey, they are usually pretty close” and I can then submit that’s the self-fulfilling aspect of this. I think little of the polls and they are no more than a substitute for an electorate that doesn’t care enough to inform themselves, and that are powered by little more than name recognition. Choosing the leader of the free world isn’t enough to break the apathy so we just allow ourselves to be spoon-fed our leaders. Well the polls say, “ ‘x’ is ahead and I think he can win so he is my guy”. I have to say your comment comes off as a bit puerile when you peel back the thin skin of the polls and expose the weaknesses and deceits within.