Well, I don’t think that much of polls and polling these days. Hardly any poll gets close to meeting 100 per cent of its sample due to shifting telephone technologies. People use answering machines to screen out nuisance phone calls.
I disagree that generic polls are at all meaningful. People consistently prefer the Democrats generically to Republicans until the real thing comes along—McGovern, Mondale, Carter, Kerry—then they hold their nose and vote the other way.
I suspect that a lot of those “wrong track” numbers have a lot to do with job insecurity and job satisfaction—my boss is a jerk—issues rather than the direction of American foreign policy. I suspect the message of both candidates is tangential (opps, apologies to Obama) to those concerns.
I don’t have a high opinion of either candidate as a candidate, nor of Mrs. Clinton. Neither of them have blow out appeal or potential and I suspect that they will both be one term presidents if they win.
