Polls have come to dominate the media's horse race coverage of political campaigns. Pundits and reporters constantly use them to tell us who's hot and who's not -- but skip over the fact that plummeting response rates and variables like undecided voters and margins of error and often render these polls useless as anything other than lightweight diversions on par with horoscopes and political betting lines. Our HuffPollstrology chart helps keep you up to date on the latest poll results, along with the latest horoscope predictions, and the latest online political betting lines - and will hopefully help the polling junkies in the media keep polls in the proper perspective.
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There may be moments when you feel cut off from even the people you think of as real friends. You might also feel that everyone's needs but yours are being heard. It's likely that this is still fall-out from the mayhem of the period endured between the two recent eclipses. Someone significantly older might not tell you what you want to hear - but perhaps what you need to hear. It might help to wear a bold colour.
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A friend's behaviour may be surprising. It might also be exciting. Whereas you've been held back (and possibly even depressed) of late, the fact that someone finds it apparently simple to step out of a rut could turn you on. True, there's no guarantee that you'll like what you see or hear and it is possible that you might need to access crisis management skills. Even so, you might still be pleased that something is at last happening.
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76 degrees (F), 20% chance of rain.
93 degrees (F), 20% chance of rain.
70 degrees (F), 10% chance of rain.
85 degrees (F), 0% chance of rain.
Sources:
General Election Poll: Gallup Daily Tracking Poll
The general-election results are based on combined data from June 14-16, 2008. For results based on this sample of 2,605 registered voters, the maximum margin of sampling 5error is ±2 percentage points.
Horoscopes: horoscopes.co.uk
Weather: Weather.com
Betting Lines: Intrade Prediction Markets