There’s that, too.
Other than a few comments here and there I avoided the vast majority of ‘08 race threads throughoutout ‘07. That doesn’t mean I haven’t been paying attention, it’s just that I felt it was far to early.
Heck the prognositicating for ‘08 started the morning after Election Day ‘04 here on FR.
It’s now ‘08, now I’ll start participating a bit more.
I agree. That’s been my take as well. People don’t really start paying attention until about a month before elections. Any polls run before that are basically irrelevent. Even then, they are generally skewed toward the leftists. You have to be very careful about what you buy into early on. And that’s why I also avoid shopping early.