[jern]

It is amazing. 6 weeks ago Zogby (was cooking his polls with the "special sauce". All the other polls were "biased". Now the President opens a little lead, and people want to take them as the gospel.

[Ravi]

I'm not taking anything as gospel. I'm just looking for trends.

[Republican Wildcat]

What Zogby poll was praised?

[Libertina]

LOL I have to admit to being more supportive of those showing our President in the lead ;)

[CaptainK]

Pollsters can influence the electorate up until a certain point by "cooking" their numbers. After all there is no way to tell if their numbers are accurate when the actual vote is months away. As the election looms closer they have to be truer to the actual numbers if they want to remain a viable polling enterprise. They don't want to look foolish come election day.

[pgkdan]

Now the President opens a little lead, and people want to take them as the gospel.

Good point. The Time and Newsweek polls were good news but I take them with a grain of salt. I completely mistrust Rasmussen, his 2000 polling was terrible and I think his methodolgy stinks. He's barely more credible than a poll at Vote.com.

All that said, I do have a certain degree of confidence in Gallup, they're the gold standard in opinion polling and I'm eager to see what their latest polls indicate.