Which candidate is right?

[Warph]

I think "They" have been slurpping too much of grandma's cooking sherry.

[pam]

I am saying that it is too early to call it.  There's many a slip twixt cup and lip.  AND.........why do the pollsters think that we need have a day to day update?  Are they trying to influence us and isn't that against the law?  It was much easier when all we heard was what we read in the paper or on a fifteen minute news broadcast twice a day. 

I agree with you Wilma on that.

[Wilma]

Thank you, Pam.

[sixdogsmom]

I have said it before and I will say it again. Any time you have a poll of any kind, it is only as good as the sample taken and the group it was taken from. In other words, you can prove anything with numbers just by manipulating the samples. We had a retired Chief Warrant Officer USMC as our statistics instructor and he started his course with the statement ' Ladies and gentlemen, statistics is a process by which any damn fool can prove any damn thing with numbers'. He was about one of the most 'real world' people I have ever known. And no, I do not think it is against the law to give incorrect or manipulated polls, just as it is not against the law to spread rumors or call people names on the internet.

There is something to be said about having information 24/7, in that there are no longer the big newspaper 'machines' that could either make or break a candidate or legislation. There is now always somebody somewhere to dispute just about everything. It probably makes it more difficult to get things done, but may in the end behave as a filter for the truth. IMO