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Trying to imagine some Civil War scientist proposing plans on the basis of who folks believe is most likely to prevail in the coming battle. Not that the polls are so bad, though they are unreliable, but that they aren't directly relevant to whether you *can* win.

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Polls are data, and you definitely have to have data, but they aren't anything like *all* the data, and they mostly only tell you "How'm I doing?" in Ed Koch's language, not what you need to do. And they're overly focused on the person, the celebrity name, as opposed to how voters feel.

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