Between now and November 8th, I am going to learn more about polls than I may ever want to know. Every day there's a new poll and every new poll is accompanied by an analysis of the techniques utilized by the poll. Then some commentator will delve into the bias of the poll. Gone are the simple days of "here are the results and there's a error factor of 3%".

I was called by a pollster a few months ago. It was to determine my preference in a five-way primary. Or so they said. After fifteen minutes of questions and follow-up questions, I excused myself and got off the call. The pollster actually called me back saying that unless I finished answering her questions, my answers wouldn't be counted. Frankly, I didn't care. I lost any faith in polling during that one encounter.

It seems that I may be the only one who has lost faith in polls. If no-one believed them, why would they be the source of such great apparent interest? And, remember, I've become a CNN junkie. So I'll read the polls and the analyses. And, on November 8th, we'll see how the polls made out.