For those of you who are interested in polls, it might be worth checking out Nate Silver's website, fivethirtyeight.com. Nate is a sports statistician who turned his attention to politics for the 2008 presidential race. He takes all the polls, weights them according to whether they tend to slant left or right, and arrives at his own conclusions. He called every state but one (Indiana) correctly in 2008, and called them all correctly in 2012. He and his team still do sports analysis as well.