At the ripe old age of 28, this blogger has finally entered that precarious time when life calls us to go back. That is right, I am talking about the High School reunion. A time when we do silly things like start our first diet, rent a Ferrari, and actually iron a shirt for the first time. All my friends have been plagued by such events this past year and after comparing notes I have realized there is a lesson to be learned regarding this election.
The popular kid.
Remember the kid who everyone admired? Perfect looks, perfect friends, great clothes, and flawless skin. (perhaps in our memories we were that kid, but most of us being honest were not). Well, the truth hits home when we make the return to that place that was once, ten years ago, the center of our lives. The "popular kid" is now just a normal human being; in fact in many cases was not nearly as attractive as some of his or her classmates. We just bought into the idea that someone was most popular.
USA Today ran a poll that blared Bush is up by eight points. My sister, an undecided, had seen the polls and sounded more like she was going to vote for Bush because of it. Does this make sense? If higher polls make people more likely to vote for such a winner, then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. That is when I realized that part of the game with public opinion polls is the same game we played in high school.
Everyone wants to like the popular kid, because they are popular. For this blogger such a phenomenon seems a bit troubling.
For all the hot polls this is a great site to keep track of the horse race.
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