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Polls are such bullshit.
They rig them so they can announce them to the the public as a suggestive thinking campaign... "Bush is ahead by 10points....you don't want to vote for a loser do ya?"
Or, If you want a computer geek analogy....
Look at how they do benchmarks. One giant OS manufacturer just paid a 3rd party testing facility to benchmark their OS against a free open source up-and-comer that they are scared shitless of....
Do you think they are going to publish negative results from this paid testing source? Hell no. They are going to test and test again and play around with the numbers and tweak their OS until they get the results they like -- publishable results.
Whoever owns and works at the 'independent' polling company is going to vote one way or the other. (Think about a Diebold bias).
The sad part about (portions of) the American public is they see polls and let the the polls influence their vote because otherwise they might have to read about issues and political mumbo jumbo to try to understand what's going on - or god forbid, place a vote for someone who might not win.
/rant
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