Poll: Are you a 'Pollaholic' ?

[Tx4obama]

Poll Addict Confesses
By David Brooks

Hello, my name is David, and I’m a pollaholic. For the past several months I have spent inordinate amounts of time poring over election polls. A couple of times a day, I check the Web sites to see what the polling averages are. I check my Twitter feed to see the latest Gallup numbers. I’ve read countless articles dissecting the flawed methodologies of polls I don’t like.

And do you know what I’ve learned from these hours of attention? That if the election were held today (which it won’t be), then President Obama would be a bit more likely to win. At the same time, there seems to be a whiff of momentum toward Mitt Romney. That’s it. Hundreds of hours. Two banal observations.

I have wasted a large chunk of my life I will never get back. Why? Because I’ve got a problem.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/23/opinion/books-poll-addict-confesses.html?_r=0

Are you a 'Pollaholic' ?

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	Yes, I admit it!
	16 (80%)
	Yes, but don't tell anyone.
	1 (5%)
	No, but I might not be telling the truth.
	0 (0%)
	No, no way!
	2 (10%)
	Maybe.
	0 (0%)
	Other.
	1 (5%)
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[mucifer]

1. I'm a DU aholic It's quite sad.

[BlueDemKev]

2. Guilty.

I have a polling problem.

[ncav53]

3. Yes unfortunately, that's why I can't wait for Obama to win this thing.

[GoCubsGo]

4. Other: VERY sick of them.

Almost as sick of them as I am the John Barrow/Lee Anderson commercials we get here.

[WI_DEM]

5. I'm afraid so

[blue-kite]

6. Damn... Agreed to do a poll about how much I follow polls...

Scary stuff...

[lunamagica]

7. Yes, I am :(

[TomCADem]

8. Hi, My Name Is Tom. And, I'm a Pollaholic

I will begin the 12 steps. For those of you who are atheists, just replace God with Nate Silver:

1.We admitted we were powerless over polls - that our lives had become unmanageable.
2.Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3.Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
4.Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5.Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6.Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
7.Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
8.Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9.Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10.Continued to take personal inventory, and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
11.Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
12.Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

[TeamPooka]

9. no polling problem here. I can get a poll whenever I need one....

[Tx4obama]

10. Kicking this up for the folks that might have missed it :) n/t

[Mr.Turnip]

11. I admit I spend too much time reading polls.

[Tx4obama]

12. Well we have only a couple of days more left now :) n/t

[robertpaulsen]

13. The Bad News: I have been a pollaholic the entire 21st century.

The Good News: Obamacare covers pre-existing conditions!