What does disturb me, however, is that none of the polls have McCain up. I am hopeful that they are wrong, but it does deflate my spirits. I can not believe that any polling company would consciously print polls for partisan reasons. We are either going to have an Obama landslide, or a very close race, but it can't be both.
Therefore I, for one, am praying that the Bradley effect is real!
Bradly is real, and it will be used as an excuse. Who cares what the hell these people do with their polls? As wizbang argued on his blog---DJ Drummond, too---it's where they are. They are all located, have their HQ in, the NE corridor, and they all employ mostly NE liberal kids to do their polling. There is an inherent bias in this.
The CIA used to have "blue" teams that would work completely apart from the main group assigned to a project, and usually the blue team would have totally different analysis and recommendations than the "main" guys because they weren't part of that climate and community where you reinforce your own biases. There is NO polling "blue team" except for the candidates' internal pollsters, who absolutely have to be right, or they lose. The drive-by pollsters only have to be close, and only on election day, for them to say, "See! We called it!"