Polling...

...is like porn, really. There's never enough. If you're stupid enough to get in to it, you always want more.

Especially in this election, though, it means less then nothing. Polls are made of likely voters. The candidate's base, the real base, is youth and black voters, many of whom are being registered for the first time. And who don't get counted in polls.

On the other hand, they're also the people whose registrations are those most likely to be challenged, and the people who are most likely to be disenfranchised.

So polling is essentially saying: "Here's what would be happening if the party, which is spending ungodly amounts of money on voter registration in states all over the country, didn't actually turn any of those people out. The race is basically tied. Let's talk about it in every possible media outlet, ad nauseum, for the next 57 days."

None of which will stop me from looking at it every time I open my computer.