Leave Us to Our Free Election (Pericles, Prince of Tyre: II,iv)

Now, THIS is what a Presidential election year's final stretch should look like: dead even for the average of all polls as of yesterday (according to Projects 538). 

For this last week of campaigning the public opinion pollsters will turn honest, since it is only their last pre-election poll that they'll be judged by. Before then, we should treat polls as efforts to shape opinion. At least, the free kind of polls that get publicly reported. The good poll results that you have to pay for are presumably closer to reality all along.

I'm probably in a small minority here, but I do love it when, as the days tick down, desperation strikes and pressure reveals character. Were it up to me, every year would be election year.