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<p>Early polls <a href="http://themonkeycage.org/blog/2011/05/25/do-early-polls-predict-anything/" target="_self">aren&#39;t</a> very helpful:</p>
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<p>Seth Masket <a href="http://enikrising.blogspot.com/2011/05/predictive-power-of-polls.html" target="_self">captions</a>:</p>
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<p>[W]e are still currently more than 300 days away from the next presidential election, meaning that any polls pairing up Obama against possible Republican nominees are functionally meaningless.</p>
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