Temptation - I'm sorely tempted

Temptation - I'm sorely tempted to make this blog a poll-free zone. The insane gyrations of the polls this last few days have to make you wonder - are the voters really as flaky as a bunch of glue-sniffing lemurs, or are the polls perhaps royally screwed up?

Last week, the Star Trib Poll showed Mondale up by 8 - although we noted some problems with that poll earlier in the week. This week, they're in a dead heat.

By the way, I have to wonder about people like this, quoted from the Strib article on the poll (emphasis added by me):

Jeff Foldenaur, 35, a small-business owner in Inver Grove Heights, said that his decision was "a tough call," but that he probably would vote for Mondale.

"All the stuff he's done for us in the past," he said. "It's important to keep a balance in Congress." Foldenaur said he likes Coleman but probably would have voted for Wellstone. "I'm more sure of Mondale," he said. "He's a little more conservative."

How it can be a "tough call" for any small businessman is beyond me. And why do we need a "balance in Congress"? If it's balance we want, shouldn't we have equal numbers of Libertarians, Greens, Zoroastrians, Nazis and Khmer Rouge, just to make it REALLY fair?

And Mondale is "a little more conservative..." than Wellstone in the same sense that a second degree burn is a little less painful than a third-degree burn.

In the meantime, the polls that were showing dead heat in Florida are now showing a lopsided Jeb Bush lead.

Posted by Mitch at November 3, 2002 08:28 PM