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Republicans have never been good at public relations.

The problem is that when polls are wrong, they tend to be wrong in the same direction. If they miss in New Hampshire, for instance, they all miss on the same mistake.

Elections are rarely perfect.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

You can't depend on polls.

Polling only works in a country without a depressed, frightened populace. Where the public trusts authorities enough to tell them the truth without fear of retribution.

Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions.

By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.

The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.

Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn't understand its responsibility and feels more like it's an arm of a political party. They can really take advantage of an uninformed populace.