[jveritas]

The polls in March 2004 showed Kerry leading by 5 to 8 points. What I am saying is that polls can be very biased and polls in the month March of an election year are meaningless. Come to me in the last two weeks of October and talk to me about polls, other than that I will tell you:

"He who lives by the polls will die by the polls, ask the 1% of democrats with brains and they will tell you how true this is."

[HitmanLV]

Here's the problem with that.

This is uncharted territory. No president in recent memory has had such a public perception problem for as long as Dubya has had. He has been in the dumps since summer 2005 and really shows no signs of life now.

The poll isn't meaningless: it means Dubya has a leadership problem. It is less meaningful as a predictior for the election in 2006, that is true.