I came across just an astonishing story today in The New York Times, portions of whichI want to quickly share here with you, my friends. If you tune into this place even semi-regularly, you know I have a big problem with political polls. Besides being complete, unsubstantiated garbage (wrong), they can be dangerous, and used as divisive tools to cool the vote and/or drive false narratives heading into an election. Worse, too often they are used by corporate media like The Times to drive up readership and viewership to their shaky news outlets, which is one of the highest crimes in journalism: …