Bravo, Tom! I yelled at my husband (sorry, JP!) on Sunday that the NYT was polling A YEAR OUT from the election. As you so rightly point out, anything (possibly everything) could happen between now and then. Polls have been wrong so many times before. Mark Twain could have summed this situation up very nicely with his "There are three ki…
Bravo, Tom! I yelled at my husband (sorry, JP!) on Sunday that the NYT was polling A YEAR OUT from the election. As you so rightly point out, anything (possibly everything) could happen between now and then. Polls have been wrong so many times before. Mark Twain could have summed this situation up very nicely with his "There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics!" Polls are, at their root, statistics.
Bravo, Tom! I yelled at my husband (sorry, JP!) on Sunday that the NYT was polling A YEAR OUT from the election. As you so rightly point out, anything (possibly everything) could happen between now and then. Polls have been wrong so many times before. Mark Twain could have summed this situation up very nicely with his "There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics!" Polls are, at their root, statistics.