A (sad) tale of two polls. Actually, of one poll.

[MADem]

63. My point is that NONE of them are "reputable" at this stage of the game. It's all bullshit and talk.

And PPP leans way left, just like NEWSMAX leans way right. Here's what NEWSMAX was saying a year out, about the election in 2012:

http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/Romney-defeats-obama-poll/2011/10/21/id/415329/

And here's what PPP was saying, just a couple of weeks before the election, about the IOWA race where the hog castrator won:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/polltracker/league-of-conservation-voters-bruce-braley-ppp-ernst

Here's another--and guess who's governor of Maine, today? Not the PPP "frontrunner"--that's for sure: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ppp-poll-michaud-leads-lepage

Polls mean nothing at this point in time. It really doesn't matter if someone deliberately takes a piece of data and lies about it--it's like arguing over the color of the tooth fairy's wings. It's just all nonsense. Especially so far ahead of any primary.

Here's the poll that counts--the one that is held on election day. To be playing "gotcha" and suggesting that a bunch of numbers from partisan polls thrown up by partisan elements actually mean something, when the putative candidate that people are cheering/denigrating hasn't opened her damn mouth yet is asinine. It's an exercise in shitflinging. Sadly, that's something that there's no shortage of expertise in, here at DU.

I KNOW that most liberals like Hillary. How do I know this? I conduct my own polls, when I'm giving rides to the polls, of people who cast their first ballot for FDR, some of them, and they adore her. I know they vote--unlike some of the people wailing here on DU--so I'm inclined to believe them over some of the gripers I hear here.

Whatever happened to "disagree without being disagreeable?" We're all (supposedly) on the same team--all this fake dividing just seems idiotic to me. I'm voting for the Democratic nominee no matter who she, or he, is. I don't understand why people feel the need to "hate" on me and call me names because I happen to prefer one candidate right now. If that candidate bows out or loses a primary, I'll fooking ADJUST--like I did last time.

After all, the worst Democrat is better than the best Republican--and anyone who thinks otherwise can't say "Supreme Court" three times without tripping over their tongue.