Actually polls are accurate depending on the purpose. Several pollsters are very accurate but many are not. It is about how you and what you ask as a question. Party and issue pollsters spend time and money researching what the odds are of a response to a question is. Example is " Do you support the Obama Administration health-care plan ". No is the majority response if not biased.

Now that Libs are screeching do not be dismayed. If the question is " do you support the reform of the nations health-care system and cost control " ................. the answer is majority yes. The piece of bartered up crap that passed will not work and most realize this just as most realize the present system is broke. So it polls both ways but fear not, the throw the bums out thing is growing and sooner or later we will get election reform that breaks the hold of the two parties.

It is the way the question is asked that is critical in polls.