I have bad news: Americans are political polling themselves to death.
There are way too many people standing open-mouthed in front of the firehose of “BREAKING PRESIDENTIAL POLLING NEWS.” They’re gagging or growing bloated and, quite frankly, I think it’s affecting their brains.
Right this moment, just past the mid-point of May, there are only three things any of us can say with certainty about the November presidential election:
Donald Trump might win.
Joe Biden might win.
RFK Jr. is definitely not going to win.
That’s quite literally it. Anyone claiming anything else is peddling nonsense, and anyone using polling data to assert anything with even a modicum of certainty is a fool.
And yet … fools abound.
Thus the colossal liberal freakout – and accompanying MAGA “Yipeee!” – over a recent set of swing-state surveys by The New York Times, Siena College and The Philadelphia Inquirer. The polls, according to the Times, “found that Mr. Trump was ahead among registered voters in a........