Ten days ago Oregon, Alabama, Oklahoma and Texas A&M were all undefeated and were ranked among the top 6 college football teams in the country. That was ten days ago.
Ten days ago, we learned of the first case of Ebola in the U.S. We now know a whole lot more about the spread of this horrific disease.
And ten days ago, the race between Rick Scott and Charlie Crist was a different animal. In fact, ten days ago the general consensus was that Charlie was behind but closing. That is no longer the case.
In the news business, ten days is a long time. So why on earth would it take the New York Times and CBS Evening News, ten full days to release a poll that took even more days to conduct?
Did they simply forget that they did it? Did it get lost somewhere and they figured now is a good time to release it? Ten days? Really?
And did it really take them 11 days to conduct a tracker? Who even thinks of that?
If – IF! – today was October 2nd and I wanted to put it to the salt shaker test, I might have questioned a poll that was weighted to show 32% “IND” voters – a fiction that will simple not happen. I might also question a poll that had 3 points more Democrats than Republicans – also an Florida Democratic Party fantasy. Further, I would shed doubt on a poll that forgot to test Adrian Wyllie and relegated him and the other NPA candidates to “other.”
But it’s not, so I won’t.
This poll is not even worth wasting a grain of salt on. So put away the saltshaker and ignore this one completely.
