Are you kidding? Tell that to the political operatives on both sides who have to have some means of making decisions regarding the allocation of their resources in order to win. Trust me, at this level, a national campaign cannot simply act on its "gut." I don't disagree that polling is never an exact science but it is incredibly useful even though all poll results should be taken with a grain of salt.
PJ, thanks for all the hard work. It has been very insightful over the weeks. Now we just get to wait a couple of days to see how right or wrong the polling community was.
It is fine for political professionals setting strategy day by day. They have to know what seems to be working and what is not. Of course they cannot work “ on their gut.” They have their own private polls for those purposes. But what good does it do us to watch polls jump around for weeks only to discover that they are inconclusive a few days before an election?