So CBS is reporting today that it might be too early to really scrape any bit of substantial information from the horserace polls emerging on the hour every hour (ironic, considering the MSM is typically the sole propagator of such polls in the first place).

Setting the horserace dilemma aside, traditional polling completely misses potential voters who pass on landlines (read: young people and Latinos, two of the fastest-growing voter demographic pools this cycle). A Pew study released this summer says that passing over the 14.5 percent of Americans rely solely on their mobile doesn’t really make a difference, but we’d like to point out that less than 10 percent of Pew’s respondents were cell phone-only users… how’s that for skewed data?  For a complete dissection of The Great Cellular Overlook, check this out.

In any case, the ever-astute New Yorker has this deliciously funny scoop on who’s up and who’s down and why it really does(n’t) matter.