I disagree. The polls keep people motivated. The majority of people that come here are Obama supporters. If they don't answer polls, it'll look like he's in last place and people will give up. Momentum is what keeps people involved and the polls add a lot to that.

Also, why is it that only the Democratic polls are considered wrong? The truth is, it was only wrong in New Hampshire because of the perfect storm of woman bashing Hillary's show of emotion in the last two days.

Say "no" to election fraud. Don't be surprised if this recount points to a skunk in the Clinton camp.

I got a better idea. Ignore the polls, stop reporting on the polls. Stop giving the polls credibility by doing the prior two things I mention, and there won't be polls in the first damn place.

A sampling of 1,000 people does not speak for me, or you, or the other 300+ MILLION Americans. Hell, I could find 1,000 people here in my small city that think a certain way. Doesn't mean a damn thing, except I found that many people who mostly thought one way about an issue. Doesn't mean the other 60,000 think the same way. Not even close.

And please, stop using the rigged Nielsen ratings too. That's simply a poll, and even more inaccurate. It's so grossly wrong, that many tv shows have been brought back after the Nielsen polls were shown to be very wrong.

I can't take this petition seriously until HuffPo announces some kind of policy of not reporting or relying on poll data. This just seems like another media outlet that got it wrong before New Hampshire and is trying to save face with a cutesy "pollsters stink!" article...­like you didn't post that huge end-of-an-era picture of the backs of the Clintons last Monday.

I am on board the anti-pollster bandwagon, though. It really is useless to report what some random group of people think when less than 50% of people vote in primaries anyway, and voters often change their mind. I think the job of the media is to report what the candidates are doing and saying and what their positions are. That's it. All this "who's up" and "who's down" business is just a fabricated horse race.

No one is up or down in any one state until the polls open.

I mostly agree with Arianna on this one, with a little caveat. I think we should take fewer polls and should do more of thing things trhat actually get us in touch with the electorate (oh, and having principles of one's own wouldn't suck. We don't know what these people really feel. We only know that they listen to polls)

Yes, let's stop taking part in polls of any kind, especially exit polls. Let's eliminate polling from the process and simply accept reported vote tallies with out questioning the results.

Do you hear yourself? Hello??? Use your brain, you ego-maniacal twit!

Disagree.
If elections are fixed, the polls will refelect that.

The polls are not the problem. The media misinformation and lack of journalistic integrity is the problem.

Polls are just questions. Journalistic integrity seems to have gotten lost, sucked into some alternate universe perhaps (cause not MSM or bloggers seem capable of finding it).

How about a search for Journalistic integrity? And just a suggestion: start in the mirror.

The polls are a strawman argument.

Yeah, right. had Obama won polls would've been wonderful- The Huff when on a poll binge when they predicted huge margins for their candidate.­...

How about the Huff show soem integrity and admit there's a chance they could've been wrong-could it? I mean the certainty exhibited here reminds me of Boosh certainty. Take some responsibilty!

Arianna dear, with all the problems going on and not showing any love to Edwards, is this really the best you can do?

This is ridiculous –HuffPo and Arianna should have a petition up for either a requirement BY LAW that ALL voting machines MUST have a paper receipt or A BAN ON PAPERLESS VOTING MACHINES, period!

This is like shooting the messenger…for Christ’s sake is this frickin country RETARDED or something!!

The US should have NEVER allowed corporations to be in control of our voting apparatus. Diebold Corporation is the maker of ATM machines. All ATM machines have receipts –yet Diebold claims they cannot make voting machines that output receipts. The CEO of Diebold, Wally O’Dell, is a GOP Republican fundraiser and claimed that he was “going to deliver the votes” to Bush/Chene­y….and he did!!

Do pollsters use the do-not-call list?

Polls are not the problem. In fact they are extremely accurate.
That's why every candidate uses them.
Watch how accurate the polls will be in the next primary vote.

The real problem is FRAUD.
Why isn't voter fraud discussed here or in any of the MSM?

Say no to VOTER FRAUD!

I agree with this in principle, but what will this do in practice? Chances are that the lion's share who buy into this will be progressives who support candidates who are most harmed by polls (like Kucinich). If they aren't polled, won't the big money candidates gain?

This just strikes me as a knee-jerk idea that hasn't been vetted. Has much thought actually gone into this? Or is this just some impulsive idea thrown out and then abandoned?

What about it, Arianna? This isn't going over very well because you haven't made a very good case for it. Are you going to step up and defend it, or should readers just assume you haven't really thought it through?

This petition is an empty gesture by HuffPo designed to do three things: make people feel as if they've done something effectual when they haven't; up website statistics for page views; and burnish HuffPo's marketing profiles as a progressive web destination.

Anyone care to take a bet about the net effect of this "movement?"