The Polls

What is not polled these days? As we watch the political races we Americans are overwhelmed with every poll that you can think of. Polls for cities, states, confidence levels, approval ratings etc. What do these numbers mean to us? Id say...a whole lot of nothing. At most they give us a statistical measurement of how the candidates are doing. But most of the time they are based on such a small sample set that its hard to believe they have any relevance whatsoever. Instead, i think that they take all these polls for the benefit of the candidates and their campaign teams. They are interesting to hear about but after awhile one wants to stop hearing about statistics and get on with the race. For now, we are stuck with poll after poll. An interesting video and some websites regarding the democratic race and how close it is in the polls are below.....






Links

http://www.gallup.com/video/106942/SixDay-Statistical-Tie.aspx

http://www.gallup.com/poll/106945/Gallup-Daily-Clinton-49-Obama-45.aspx

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/us/politics/01poll.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss