Public Opinion: Do Polls of the Barack Obama-John McCain Matchup Matter This Far Out?
Is it too early to pay attention to presidential preference polls?
A half-dozen new presidential polls have been released in the past 24 hours alone. Pundits pore over the polling data and discuss the latest wrinkles in the John McCain-Barack Obama horse race. But does any of it matter? Do presidential polls taken this far from the election merit attention? Or are they just meaningless grist for the beltway, the blogosphere, and the 24-hour cable news channels? Post your thoughts below.
Previously: John McCain's complaints about media bias toward Barack Obama
Reader Comments
Rick Warren Mc Cain Obama interview
Mc Cain showed ability to make a decision and lead, while Obama
looked like your typical intellectual, confused over which side
to take, if you layed Obama and all the profs in the world end to end they still wouldn't reach a conclusion. Can you trust a man who doesn't have the moral courage to defend a person in the womb to defend you?
The bigest dilemna
The biggest dilemna by John Mcain is to be elected by the media as the most likely candidate
absolutly
The media messes up all our elections with all these stupid polls, don't they have anything better to do than help to keep our elections so close. Why can't Americans all vote at the same time. People see how its going in the east and change how they vote in the west. It should be a very private thing once the election starts and we should all be surprised how it turns out in the end. When the media does is turns Americans against each other by saying and reports how each state is voting that should be illegal.
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