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.
mccain
Yet again property and domestic issues seem high priority. This time you could be fully engaged with proposals. You might even attract an architect or interior designer into your life. A degree of chaos may not be linked to this but could be to do with a pending trip. Travel arrangements, might require review.
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Part of you might want to run and hide. It may be that you've over-promised, but really don't want to let someone down. Issues of truth and reconciliation seem high priority. Though you may not win anything yourself today, there's the possibility that you could bring luck to someone else. You could perhaps do this by inspiring someone or boosting their confidence.
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82 degrees (F), 50% chance of rain.
93 degrees (F), 20% chance of rain.
69 degrees (F), 20% chance of rain.
82 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 12-14, 2008. For results based on this sample of 2,828 registered voters, the maximum margin of sampling error is ±2 percentage points.
Horoscopes: horoscopes.co.uk
Weather: Weather.com
Betting Lines: Intrade Prediction Markets