The polls have been in the news lately because Democrats are celebrating the lead Biden appears to hold while Republicans are worried that the Wuhan virus lockdowns and Black Lives Matters riots will harm Trump. Three news items, however, illustrate just how meaningless polls are in modern politics. The first item is the most worrying: According to an ABC News/Ipsos poll, 67% of Americans disapprove of what Trump has done regarding the Wuhan Virus. Yikes! Interestingly, the poll methodology does not say how the poll was weighted between Republicans and Democrats. It says only that it oversampled blacks and Hispanic respondents. Make of that what you will. This is the same kind of scary poll that had Biden with a “double-digit advantage on President Trump” in a national poll. What most people miss is that America doesn’t have national elections. America has 50 state elections plus the District of Columbia. That’s different. Still, the poll is...(Read Full Post)