Originally Posted by Soaring

Exactly. The normal American citizen who gets up, eats breakfast, goes to work, comes home and watches television and eats supper/dinner with his or her family do not even know what the polls are. If called, they are called in the middle of the afternoon when they are not at home. The pollsters reach the TV viewing Soap Opera welfare recipients at a much larger rate than the working class citizen. If on the computer, they usually don't answer for fear of adding cookies to their hard drive. So, as I said before, polls are not an indication of how the American people feel about any given candidate.