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cynatnite

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3. Polls are nothing more than one second snap shots of a question....

Reply to WI_DEM (Original post)

Tue Sep 18, 2012, 04:57 PM

Sep 2012

They become important when several of them are looked at over a period of time.

If you want to sweat every single day, go to Nate Silver's blog. It will help you breathe a bit easier. Also, there is nothing wrong with taking a healthy cautious approach as well.

As was said before...breathe.

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For those worrying about Gallup showing Obama up by +1... [View all] WI_DEM Sep 2012 OP

Deep breath, deep breath. Just seems more dangerous than then. From the Palin pan into the fire. freshwest Sep 2012 #1

The one positive thing is the latest remarks from Romney are not factored in yet. /nt still_one Sep 2012 #2

Polls are nothing more than one second snap shots of a question.... cynatnite Sep 2012 #3

Meh, doesn't really matter. It will go up again once these videos are taken in budkin Sep 2012 #4