Many of you seem to understand polling a whole lot better than I do. I’m in the “there are lies, damn lies, statistics and those god-forsaken polls!” camp when it comes to escalating untruths.

Now, that off my chest, what, exactly are these “internal polling” data? When I look at the questions or the presentation of this “internal” stuff what I see are questions that attempt to figure out how people arrived at the one answer that is important. These are the “what’s you rationale?” questions.

This sort of question, it seems to me, might mean something for we “decideds”. The “undecideds”, however, are only now beginning to even pay attention and they are generally pondering the most recently made points. They are in, “Hmmm… that seems about right to me… I care about that stuff” mode at the moment.

Over time they will be presented not only with, hopefully, valid alternate points which will put them back into “Hmmm… that’s seems about right to me…” and they will be subject to counter arguments that call their first assumptions into question.

The undecideds, no matter what they say when polled at a given point in time, have the primary attribute of being undecided. They are open to the arguments and being “sold”. Kerry may have some thinking about buying, but they ain’t plunked no cold, hard-earned cash down yet and they haven’t heard the other pitch yet.

All in all, the hand-wringing either way at this point seems more intended to keep eyes glued to the tube than to ‘splain anything.

Oh, yeah, and that stinker Catherine has hit yet another nail dead center with a sledgehammer. My only consolation is that any noggin that sucks in information that quickly must have recently been a vacuum. (Just funnin’ Catherine! I am envous but its a good envy – I think we call that admiration or somesuch.)