Has Fox news declared its bias with the 2004 polls? Should we discount them

[classical liberal]

FOX polls and robo-polls and Zogby's junk should all be dropped from the polls page.

[classical liberal]

of course, polls from 5 months ago should not influence the poll averages either.

[classical liberal]

The polls arent five months ago!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They were last month (JUNE 23RD bar one)

Rightwingnut - do you agree with the FOX polls in June? i could do with an extra $10,000?

Michigan 40% of the vote for Kerry, Bush up by 9% in Florida. NO OTHER POLLS THAT I CAN SEE ARE THIS BAD. THIS IS FAR TO RIGHT-WING? IS ANN COULTER POLLING?

I was talking about the M-D in Nevada from March that's still in the rolling average on Dave's poll page when I said polls from 5 months ago.  It was an afterthough addendum to my list of junk polls.

[classical liberal]

I think Nomo forgot his medication this morning.  In any case, you always have to look at the source of the polls and their raw data to get any sense of validity.  Remember our good friends at the LA Times their wonderful polls?  

tsk tsk Nomo.  Do what a good researcher does, and cast out the extreme highs and lows from any sample, and what is left is more accurate.  With that, you get Bush leading in Florida and Ohio, split on Michigan, and losing in Pennsylvania.

The LA Times is junk too.  Also, when things are this close throwing out just the extreme numbers isn't sufficient. The garbage numbers that are within range should be trashed as well (ie, the LA Times showing Wisconsin as a 2 point race should be discarded).