Polling The Electorate

The week started with Newsweek's poll showing Obama ahead in the general election by 15 points. Yesterday, we had three polls out--the LA Times had Obama ahead by 12, Rassmussen by 4, and Gallup showed them even.

What does this suggest? Perhaps that the media should pay less attention to the horserace and concentrate more on what the candidates say and do.

Even if you think polls are newsworthy, as I've stated before, why even bother to pay attention until after the conventions, or better, after Labor Day, when the country starts to look closely at the candidates?

(For what it's worth, I give Obama a clear advantage not due to these numbers, but because of his powerful get out the vote machine, his huge edge in money and the Bob Barr factor which is not being measured in most of these polls.)