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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It's possible that what's going in your life is becoming the subject of gossip. You might wonder what an old (student?) friend is saying about you. On a commercial level, just what you'd accept for an item you've mentioned you'd like to sell, could also be keeping the phone ringing. Whilst you could straighten this out with a few words, you might prefer to spend time with someone who's been unwell and who needs help in catching up with life.
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Your heart-strings could be pulled. On the one hand this could lead to involvement in a charity project: on the other this could be the feel of someone's 'hold' over you. With your imagination in over-drive, working out ways to make the next few days special - and to dress and look a splendid part - is likely to be top priority.
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85 degrees (F), 30% chance of rain.
93 degrees (F), 40% chance of rain.
88 degrees (F), 10% chance of rain.
85 degrees (F), 0% chance of rain.
Sources:
General Election Poll: Gallup Tracking Poll
The general-election results are based on combined data from July 11-13, 2008. For results based on this sample of 2,604 registered voters, the maximum margin of sampling error is ±2 percentage points.
Horoscopes: horoscopes.co.uk
Weather: Weather.com
Betting Lines: Intrade Prediction Markets