… Both sides, and much of the press, will zealously follow the polls. Some cautionary notes for these junkies are offered by Doug Usher of Purple Strategies, a bipartisan company that conducts online and other surveys for Bloomberg Politics.
Don’t pay much attention to the plethora of polls in the next few days aiming to assess whether Clinton got a bump from the convention. The best opening benchmark will be in about 10 days when voters have had a chance to better absorb the past couple of weeks.
“In the last three election cycles, the eventual winner had the lead in polls in the weeks after the convention and never relinquished it,” Usher says. CONT.
Albert R. Hunt, Bloomberg View