Poll Dancing

Ok you ravenous newfilter-eaters, it's chow time, and the state of polling is the main course.
First, two conflicting polls, one showing Bush ahead and the other showing Kerry ahead.

The first is from CNN and shows Bush ahead 52 percent to 44 percent, with a 4 point margin of error.

This poll from the Economist shows Kerry ahead with 46 percent to 45 percent, with Nader at 1 percent and the margin of error 2 points.

I don't want you to think that I am doing this thing where I post conflicting poll results because I want it to look like I'm trying to be balanced. I'm not. Actually, I want you to think I'm doing it because the Universe is a horrible, horrible place in which nothing makes sense and Half Life 2 still isn't out yet and the heat death is still at least another billion years off.

So, on that note, I've got another couple state polls that don't jive, this time from Ohio. One is from a Republican outfit and the other is from a Democratic one? Can you guess which is which? This is NOT a trick question.

And last, but of course not least, another fun electoral vote website at the Christian Science Monitor, with stuff you can click on. A nice thing about the above link is that it will show you how the numbers went in 2000 as well as more current statistics (though not as current as electoral-vote.com, of course).

And so, the elaborate waltz that is polling continues. There, I justified this article's title.