What Do the Biden-Trump Polls Show?

Like everyone else who is obsessed with current-day politics, particularly during a Presidential campaign, I pay attention to the polls, if only because just looking at numbers is much less offensive than listening to what some other expert has to say.

I look at lots of polls, but the one I trust more than any other is Quinnipiac, first of all because they are right much more frequently than they are wrong, and second of all because the polls are generated by a not-for-profit organization (Quinnipiac University) and therefore don’t need to worry about how many daily clicks they receive.

And the one thing I never do is read what some pundit or digital noisemaker says about a poll without reading the actual results and raw data of the poll itself. That’s an absolute no-no, at least in my book.

In that regard, the latest Quinnipiac poll, which came out two weeks ago and covered answers from 1,421 registered voters in all 50 states, gave Joe a 4-point lead over Trump, 49 to 45 percent, but since the poll’s margin of error of 2.6%, they are basically tied.

Foe me, the most interesting finding in this poll was that in a head-to-head matchup of Trump and Joe, the undecided vote was only 6%. Which tells me that these two guys have been around long enough that everyone knows who they are, so unless something very dramatic occurs between now and November 5th, the so-called ‘dog shit with glass vote’ (viz., David Sedaris’ forever remarkable 2008 column) won’t count for shit.