We've all heard the old adage: "Figures don't lie, but liars figure."  Up to the day before the presidential election last November, a majority of news media outlets routinely relied on fraudulent, phony, over-sampled, skewed, and mostly inaccurate polling numbers.  It was widely accepted that Hillary Clinton's seemingly assured waltz back into the White House would be historic, and by a landslide.  A funny thing happened on the way to the ballot box: Hillary was thwarted, and the pollsters were forced to dine on a big plate of crow. Fast-forward nine months: the national conversation has turned to repealing and perhaps replacing Obamacare, discounting the still simmering scandal of Russian involvement or  tampering or collusion as it applies to the presidential election.  Unfortunately, some of the same pollsters (and those who report on the polling results) are back at their unsavory craft.  Just how disingenuous are the polls...(Read Full Post)