* Note that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg did, indeed, express regrets for her less-than-circumspect comments about the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump. As well she should have.
Also note that Ginsburg hasn’t apologized. Nor should she have.
* Can we declare a moratorium on polls? It’s only July. And this is no longer the Gallup generation. It’s faux news.
This is about news organizations and PR-hustling universities making their own snapshot news in an era when polling has never been more problematic.
Variables include land lines vs. cell as well as sampling issues–from the ever-escalating percentage of hang-ups to a protean definition of “likely” voter. Then there’s the matter of who’s actually asking the questions and what script they are reading from.
And the margin of error is, typically, about 3 percent. How self-servingly specific for something so increasingly imprecise.
* And, BTW, who the hell are these “undecided voters.” Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton? Donald Trump or anybody. But still needing time to mull this over?