Our editor says that polls are the "crack of political reporting," but they're more like powdered cocaine: hard to get, expensive, a quality high that gets spread around the whole party. The real crack of political reporting are political catfights: cheap, fast, generally leading to poor decision making and lost teeth.Indeed.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2007/05/crack-versus-powder/42323/
