Mad Poll Disease is making Democrats misread voter opinion | Michael Podhorzer

Horserace polling can't tell us anything new about who will win the electoral college - but the existence of an anti-Maga majority is clear

Now that Thanksgiving has passed in America, and everyone's Trumpy uncle is on his way back to his conservative state, we still have our catastrophizing Democratic cousins to contend with. Triggered by the drumbeat of horrific poll results, they are panicking that Joe Biden is too old and unpopular to prevent a second Trump administration from taking power.

These cousins, and perhaps you too, are suffering from the latest strain of what I call Mad Poll Disease. It's a perpetual state of anxiety - spread by the media's obsession with using polls to forecast the outcome of the next election, instead of empowering voters with all the information they need to decide what they want that outcome to be and act, or vote, accordingly.