Most of the wrangling on this thread recently has been an amazing waste of time--especially the drivel about polls. A poll is worse than a snapshot, since so many factors like phrasing of the questions, whether people without land lines are queried, etc,. enter into the result.


The ony important question is turnout on election day. At this point, even people in McCain's `'base' show limited enthusiasm for him. The same is not true for Obama.

We'll see if this changes as we approach election day.