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When noted journalists bashed political polls as nothing more than 'a fragmentary snapshot' of a moment in time

  • Written by W. Joseph Campbell, Professor of Communication Studies, American University School of Communication
imageLegendary New York City columnist Jimmy Breslin, right, ready to do shoe-leather journalistic research in a bar, said preelection polls were "monstrous frauds."Michael Brennan/Getty Images

Poll-bashing – the aggressive, even extreme lambasting of pollsters and their work – used to be blood sport among prominent American journalists.

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