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To me polling seems like a good tool but I think it is also very dangerous. For example right after the veep debate instant polling showed Edwards had won. Yet some networks started claiming that Cheny won. After a few days of hearing this delayed polls came out and a lot of those polls favored Cheny.

People like to bet on the winner. When a instant poll comes out and says that soandso is the winner people will believe it and it becomes a self fuffling prophecy. Thus future polls show that soandso won.

This is very dangerous especially when it comes to the persidency. These polling places could very easily change the outcome of the elections by saying one person is in the lead when he really isn't

Case in point perhaps polling for the presidency should be outlawed that way people have to make their own decisions and not make decisions based on what the media tells them.