re: #166 cliffster

Disagreements over polls is one of the more asinine things, no offense to anyone involved. There will be an election, and there will be votes counted.

Not necessarily - because polls are not only used to measure public opinion, but to shape it. More accurate (or more objective) polling can discern trends in public opinion better (eg. how else do we know that X percent of the public is opposed to health care reform (a metric that some politicians are using to fight health care delivery overhaul in the US). Is X even accurate? What about questions used in figuring X. )