Managing Your Polling Habit, or Getting the Monkey Off Your Back

Originally published at: Managing Your Polling Habit, or Getting the Monkey Off Your Back - TPM – Talking Points Memo

Our friend Rick Perlstein had a good piece in The American Prospect yesterday about polling and its pitfalls — both its pitfalls as a practice, with its evolving, imperfect methodologies, but also as something we political junkies obsess over. The gist of his argument is contained in the subhed: “Presidential polls are no more reliable…