Loki, since you are immersed in stats at the moment, tell us which polls ARE 'worthy'. I've bitched about placing too much importance on polls for a long time, since they're either garbage-in-garbage-out, or the sample size sucks, or they use out-dated methods, or newer unmeasured methods like cell phones, any number of variables.
We even argue about the validity of Unemployment numbers, since they have some poll-based data.