Why you can't trust Labor Day week/weekend polls.....

[West Coast Democrat]

I looked at some 2000 polls taken right before Labor Day. As I suspected, not many polls were taken that week (Labor Day was Sept 1st)--I found just 3 at polling report

I found 2 Newseek Polls with odd results that put Gore far ahead in the lead:

8/30-31/00 Gore 49 Bush 39 Others/undecided 1 3 8 755RV Newsweek
8/30-31/00 Gore 53 Bush 41 undecided 6 755RV +/- 4 Newsweek

One was from Pew (a larger sampling & extended time period):

8/24 - 9/10/00 Gore 47 Bush 41 1 2 9 1,999RV Pew

I wonder what would have happened if the Gore campaign had taken these polls too seriously. Very weird numbers.