What’s NOT important about polls is who’s up 0.03% and who’s down by .04%. Or what percentage of people think about some issue that’s presented in a way that is patently designed to get a certain response.
But there is something to be taken from vanishingly small poll numbers week after week for months and months on end, and that is this: this is a candidacy that is going exactly nowhere, despite the fact that the candidate himself may be likable, spot on with the issues, and photogenic.
You take what you want from polls. I don’t want anything from them so I won’t be taking anything from them.
If you must take something, take the fact that they run a list of names past some people they happen to find at home and are willing to participate. The list of name goes by, they hear one they recognize, they choose it, and are pleased with themselves. The media publishes the poll and the poll then becomes self-fulfilling prophecy because the electorate is all too eager to jump on the winning bandwagon.
You made a good point but missed a much larger one.