“What numbers? LOL Polls are insipid and mostly useless. Don’t pay attention to numbers when picking a candidate. Pay attention to the MAN (or woman) and their message. People who listen to polls are lazy and mostly illiterate. :) (Not you, because you’re obviously not choosing a candidate based on numbers)”
Sorry to disagree with you, but I think the polls while not 100% accurate, do in fact show trends. Fred entered with great numbers, polling 2nd in national polls(national polls don’t mean much in a primary, but again point out trends) Fred was trending down in Iowa, and finished in a virtual tie with McCain who didn’t seriously contest Iowa.He’s now polling 3rd or 4th. As I said he can still win, but his window is closing rather quickly.
Trends.... are what they are if others aren’t watching the polls.
The PROBLEM with polls NOW is that there are a lot of people who are solely basing their voting upon those polls. So, the more the “trend” shows something going in one direction, the more you’re going to pull in to VOTE in the “trendy manner”.
It’s a fact, talk to people around you are semi-ignorant of politics and ask them about who they are voting for and why. You will discover a good majority of them are doing it “because everyone else is”. So, disagree all you like, and certainly under other circumstances (less communications, less information available than we have today!) then you’d be right, but in this case, you’re wrong.