The Election Pollsters - American Oracle of Delphi

Nine days to go for the U.S. general election. This year's presidential race is a horse race between incumbent President George W. Bush (R) and the democratic challgenger Sen. John Kerry (D). Internet savvy political partisians are keeping tabs on their candidate's polling scorecards, religiously from dawn to dusk. Each nuance and abberation of the polls are assimilated, dissected, and divined many times each day.

The omphalos where the polling oracles gathered is Real Clear Politics. Methodologies and interpretations of conflicting oracles (polls) are not uncommon at this cyber-shrine. In ancient Greece, the Delphi oracle was always happy to give another prophecy if more gold were provided. I wonder if the pollsters are not behaving as such.