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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92 degrees (F), 20% chance of rain.
100 degrees (F), 10% chance of rain.
90 degrees (F), 30% chance of rain.
89 degrees (F), 0% chance of rain.
Sources:
General Election Poll: Gallup Tracking Poll
The general-election results are based on combined data from July 23-25, 2008. For results based on this sample of 2,710 registered voters, the maximum margin of sampling error is ±2 percentage points.
Horoscopes: horoscopes.co.uk
Weather: Weather.com
Betting Lines: Intrade Prediction Markets