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Why on earth do people write posts like this one, from Salon’s War Room. Why on earth do allegedly self-respecting outlets like Salon inflict them on their readers?

It starts out:

Polls taken five months before a general election don’t have much value. It’s kind of like picking a World Series winner based on standings in May — there are a lot of games to be played, and a lot can happen.

But then it blithely continues: “Cheesy baseball metaphors aside, …” and trots out some commentary on the latest NBC/WSJ poll.

After which it continues:

Meaningful? Well, almost certainly not. But it might make these polls something to watch anyhow, in between checking the baseball box scores.

Maybe someone over at Salon would explain to its readers why they deserve to have things that are almost certainly not meaningful inflicted upon them?