This is pretty neat...

[lizard]

http://electoral-vote.caida.org/
watch the changing dynamics from May til now.

 

[xfer]

very cool!

i wish you could overlay the candidates' visits from state to state to see if that makes a difference.

 

[lizard]

people tend to think its all one big vote when in actuality it is over 50 little ones.

 

[FalseTodd]

the extreme oscillations make me think that either the polls are problematic or the people are

 

[lizard]

the polls are always problematic...UNH taught us how easily they can be manipulated by subtle steering questions that the mouth breathers out there don't pick up on (from both sides).

 

[xfer]

there's an excellent article about Zogby and polling in general in the last New Yorker (the political issue, with the American flag/Abu Ghraib cover).

 

[xfer]

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?041018fa_fact5

 

[lizard]

these numbers are VERY interesting.
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2004/10/19/electoral_college_update.html