The polls you don't see

Josh Marshall at Talkingpointsmemo.com caught something few have noticed about polling in the congressional races. The congressional races must be going well for Democrats...

The point I didn't mention is this: the normal response when one candidate puts out a poll favorable to him or herself is for the other side to go into the field and (if they can) and get a better number to release. And back in July they did just that. According to Roll Call (sub. req), the NRCC dropped $450,000 to conduct polls in 28 competitive districts. The article was dated July 31st. And the polls were conducted "over a two-week period this month." In other words, the polling was almost certainly done at least a month ago.

So far as I can tell, I've seen few if any of those polls. And it's not hard to figure out why.

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