[Jorge]

Looks like Keyes is on track to getting his usual 29% of the vote.

And I was attacked as a "defeatist" for predicting Keyes would not win this election.

[ambrose]

This same polling outfit (SurveyUSA) found that Mike Ditka was down by only 6% in a hypothetical matchup. Too bad Ditka balked at running.

[outlawcam]

predicting Keyes would not win this election.

What you--and the media--do not seem to understand is that a poll is not an election. I'm tired of newsrooms using these polls and then reporting them as news. No poll counts until election day--and thank God that's the case, or Bush would have been a gonner many times during this latest cycle. Polls are rarely useful for anybody but those who want to influence opinion. This includes the news organizations that conduct and report them.

[TomasUSMC]

And I was attacked as a "defeatist" for predicting Keyes would not win this election

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Correction. You are still going to be attacked as a "defeatist".

You are a defeatist. You are a defeatist.

[FITZ]

And I was attacked as a "defeatist" for predicting Keyes would not win this election

What if the same kind of poll shows Kerry is ahead of Bush? And when did we start trusting polls as the Gospel --- especially when most of us are never polled? If it's by the telephone, I won't ever likely be polled.