Hysterical post from Kos about CNN on 11/6/00

[featherman]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/10/30/135451/48

BLITZER: And now, let's take a look at the latest poll numbers. The new CNN/"USA Today" Gallup Tracking Poll results are being released at this hour. It shows George W. Bush with 48 percent, Al Gore 43 percent, Ralph Nader with 4 percent, Pat Buchanan with 1 percent.

And those numbers are similar to other tracking polls. Take a look: ABC's poll has Bush at 49 percent, Gore at 45 percent; The Washington Post, Bush at 48 percent, Gore at 46 percent; the NBC-Wall Street Journal tracking poll, Bush at 47 percent, Gore 44 percent. And both the CBS and MSNBC-Reuters-Zogby tracking polls have Bush at 46, Gore at 44 percent.

[deutsey]

1. What happened in 2000 is precisely why I don't follow polls too closely

The more reliable ones may give a little hint as to which way the wind might be blowing at a given moment, but they're too capricious to put much faith in their accuracy.

[flygal]

2. I remember believing those numbers in 2000...

Polls are history after this election.