Bruce McCall (hey! He's one of us!) has a little fun with the obsession with the horse race approach to political coverage in the most recent New Yorker:
Cheering the Obama camp, particularly after his Middle East visits, a Fox News/Toronto Star/Amway poll, released but not yet caught, charts a severe downturn in support for efforts not to not repeal the NAFTA treaty. But the influence on French public opinion of the marriage of President Nicolas Sarkozy and international hottie Carla Bruni will have to wait until tomorrow.
Meanwhile, the normally reliable Quinnipiac University poll was travelling and was unavailable for comment. [Read the rest of the piece]
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