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♪ gallup's daily tracking poll puts mitt romney leading president obama 2% right now. gallup is one of dozens of polls published every week. the polls at a dizzying speed are enough to drive a person insane. no one, including myself can seem to look away. republicans question or rather freaked out over several polls released prior to the presidential debate with a sizable lead of president obama over mitt romney. >> that begs the question, are these polls dishonest? >> no. look, we endow them with a false scientific precision. >> these polls, i don't pay attention to them schblgt polling i...

♪ or help doctors turn billions of bytes of shared information... ♪ into a fifth anniversary of remission? ♪ whatever your business challenge, dell has the technology and services to help you solve it. talking about poll mania and the way they have taken over our political culture. the quantity has shot up. a lot of us spend a lot of time. i was saying when you are a sports fan and you are walking on a wednesday and you feel down in the dumps and forget why. you remember it's because the cubs lost the night before. it's the same thing with polling. why do i feel out of sorts? the bad p...

Registered voters. >> other polling? >> most is the adult population. so, it's not so much that. it is the fact that so many people are unengaged on issues that the pollsters don't want to recognize that they can really get big differences. the difference between a bailout and loans to the auto industry, found big differences. sorry. >> what i want to know, you are sophisticated pollsters, i'm not. if i look at a poll, what are the two or three questions i want to know to know whether -- >> it's useful or not. what should we as consumers of polls or -- >> what is my certified seal of throw thi...

Public opinion? when we say someone has a position or this position is polling, does that measure an actual thing out there or is it being constructed by the taking of the poll? >> it measures how people are responding to a question. people don't necessarily know as much as the beltway media think they do about the issues, right? so we were talking on break, cap and trade is a complex solution. >> to climate change. it would be a way of capping carbon emissions. >> pretty complex policy even by washington standards. 50% of the people support cap and trade and other polls are a pop quiz where t...

Have time to add more perspective. we have more important and dramatic days with shifts in the race. most of the time, especially in the summer, it adds up to nothing. it was the same story, day after day after day. >> it was important to look at the average of polls. i think it's what happens at five thirty eight. there are other polls. i think one of the things i have to be careful of as consumers of polls is you can't trust a single or individual poll. gallup is doing a tracking poll, it's a trend. if you look at gallup and pugh, they found conflicting results by a difference of six percent...