Pol's and polls

OK I admit it, I watch a lot of news and read a lot of papers.  In doing so, all I hear about these days (other than pigs and lipstick) are polls polls polls.  The Gallop Daily Tracking is my favorite....as if we don't have enough polls (every obscure state university, every newspaper and every network has their own poll) Gallop feels we need one everyday!!!

Aside from being inundated with these polls that vary and waiver more than Lucy Ricardo in a restaurant looking at a menu (OK I need to work on my analogies), they are focusing on the wrong information.

We don't need to know about the national polls, we don't need to know what percentage of likely voters nationwide are voting for one candidate or another.  Afterall have we forgottenthe lessons of 2000 that the popular vote is not what matters in this country?  We need to have state by state polls....and more specifically we need to have them in the swing states!

For the last 48 hours all NBC News and its affiliates have been touting is their NBC Wall Street Journal Poll, only to reveal that the race is in a virtiual "dead heat" (Obama 47 McCain 46).  

Don't give me a poll that touts the popular vote, give me one that tells me which way PA is leaning, or Nevada and while we are at it, how about Michigan, Colorado, and New Hampshire...and lets not forget the two states that decided the 2000 and 2004 elections respectively, Florida and Ohio.

For the record if you haven't had your fill of insignificant meaningless polls, Obama is leading 64 to 14 percent in an average of all polls in........ the crucial swing continent of Europe.

....my only question is why are 22% undecided?