That's a great post, but come on--"The internals are cooked!" is the cry of the person who knows his side is losing and doesn't like it.
Please--we ALL know all about internals around here. Please respect my intelligence, and I'll respect yours.
If I were only looking at polls with lopsided samples, I sure wouldn't feel the way I do now.
(E.g. not just the numbers of Dems vs Pubs, but any mention of quotas or weighting factors...)
I have read over the past week some other pollsters point out that the polls simply do not exhibit volatility on the short time frames over which we have seen swings in this campaign--that this is indicative of shenanigans or secret sauce on the part of the pollsters.
Cheers!