Why is there a headline article that includes "live polls...."

Which is it? Say No To Polls? Or listen to live polls?

Why don't we follow the French example. Polls are not permitted two weeks prior to an election.

Judging by the madness in this country of two year campaigns combined with the endless pundit comments for each and every primary we could apply the same policy here; if we were enlightened.

Oh, I'm sorry I got carried away. As a nation of gutless leaders we are not enlightened, but we have no shortage of arrogance, ignorance and hypocrisy.

So, if the count on hackable corporate America's e-vote machines doesn't match the polls, get rid of the polls?

So, if the polls don't match "the count" on corporate America's private proven-hackable e-vote machines...THEN GET RID OF THE POLLS??? ASSUME "THE COUNT" IS CORRECT AND NEVER INVESTIGATE IT???

Just WHAT are you PROMOTING here @ Huffington Post???????????

I am semi-retired after spending 10 years with an independent market-research call center, and I really don't like this "anti-poll" campaign. You are attempting to deprive poorly-paid people (the telephone interviewers) of their small incomes. Our center did the calling for the Time Magazine polls (managed by Yankelovich Partners until they sold part of their business to Harris Interactive), and they were really enjoyable polls to do. Two standout memories: polling during the "Bill & Monica Show" in 1998, in which national poll results consistently agreed with my own polling experiences - i.e., Clinton might be a poor husband, but he was still President and the Republicans should stop picking on him; and the black woman in Brooklyn I interviewed the Friday evening after 9/11, who was hesitant to participate, since she had seen the towers fall personally, but who ended up thanking me at the end for the opportunity to express her feelings on that terrible day.

What a supremely ill-considered position to take!

I'm all for enhancing the accuracy of polls as much as possible, but without them we have absolutely NO idea how badly our elections have been hacked, or gamed, or otherwise stolen. Have you not read Naomi Wolf's book or listened to a word she's said?

Sheesh. What is WRONG with everybody!?!

Honestly, I feel as though someone has spiked my coffee with LSD.

Polls are not the problem, voters are. Seeing how Edwards is getting the old "spanish archer" by the MSM and Kucinich is being shut out of the Nevada debates, if come election day, a Clinton or Obama is the choice for the Dem ticket, I will vote third party, I would advise disgruntled Dem voters to do the same. The Democratic party has be hi-jacked by conservative fence-straddlers, lapping up corporate dollars, much the way the GOP has been taken over by the thick-lipped bible thumping armchair Christian. I will support neither. Time for revolution working-class people.

I've already told them twice today that "I don't DO polls"...One for Edwards, though I listened very patiently to her speech and one for Huckabee, who admittedly I hung up on.

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Let's not rush to judgement here! The data once collected is then massaged into something other than it might indicate.

Pollsters are "part-time" employees! They're already willing to work, however, every good job has already been sent to China, India, Mexico, and god knows where-ever their former employers can find $8.00 per day employees.

Pollsters are Americans volunteering and working to give process to the Election Process. Don't let diss them too quickly. Let's have a little compassion. Possibly, the young mom or college kid asking questions about YOUR OWN choices, need this lousy Part-time job to buy gas and groceries.

So be pleasant! Answer with the truth! There is a wonderful commandment stating: "Thou shalt not bear false witness". Say "no thankyou" with a smile! But DO NOT KILL THE MESSENGER just because you didn't want to hear the possible answers! Let's show some more liberal compassion the Neo-Cons say we do not possess.

Great idea! How about starting up one for Canada? With minority govt a federal election is an ongoing threat and so therefore are polls.

I hung up on a pollster just an hour ago.I just use the old (Seinfeld)line,Why don't you give me your home number and I will call you after I have had supper.OH!YOU DON'T WANT ME CALLING YOU AT HOME WELL NOW YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL.

Ms Huffington This is one of the few times I find myself in disageement with you. Exit polls ARE important. I believe we should be concentrating on the fact that to many electronic voting machines have no way to check the validity of each vote..THAT is important...not the mindless chatter of to many 'talking heads' and their pre-election polls.

MSM has yet another way of distracting people from the real issues. When the repo man comes for the SUV and the flat panel TV, when the foreclose notice is slapped on the front door, the average Joe will be sitting there thinking about Britney S, Lindsay L, Paris H, Paula J, Monica L, Gennifer F ... the goddesses of our crotch culture. The polls are so amateurish as to mean nothing. They never ask about the dead in Iraq, the billions W is giving away. Dumbed down polls for a dumbed down population.

Forget media polls. We should spend time making sure the only poll that counts, the election itself, is counted correctly. Further, if we don't hand count our ballots in our precincts, immediately after the polls close, then our nation will continue to be hijacked by thugs who profit from war and disaster at our expense.
Forget this, it is time to wake up before we sleep-walk over the cliff.