John Podhoretz is as addicted to the polling data as I am.
LET'S drop the partisan fighting and the ideological battling for a moment to step back, take a look around, and then ask: Has there ever, ever, ever been an election as exciting as this one? The answer, after some consideration, is: No way, not by a long shot.
He credits the blogs for making this election all the more yummy.
Most exciting and most addicting are the blogs — the citizen-journalist news sites. They offer campaign coverage of the highest order, from viewpoints spanning the political spectrum. So when I'm awake in the middle of the night taking care of a baby, I can surf Web sites to see the latest polling — and then do so again five hours later, and again every hour after that.
He mentions a few blogs that specialize in polling data: Realclearpolitics.com, Daly Thoughts, The Hedgehog Report and The Horserace Blog. The Horserace Blog, utiilizing a poll by the Center for Policy and Economic studies, found that Kerry was underperforming among blacks by roughly 14 percent of the vote.
I'm off to check out these blogs.