Reading the Iowa tea leaves

Published January 16, 2004 5:22PM (EST)

John Zogby's polls out of Iowa these last few days have been stunners. If they reflect reality, there's a statistical 4-way race with John Kerry inching ahead of the field. That's if they reflect reality.

Ruy Teixeira deconstructs the numbers and shows just how hard it is for pollsters to predict the outcome of the Iowa caucuses.

In other words, maybe we should all just chill.


By Geraldine Sealey

Geraldine Sealey is senior news editor at Salon.com.

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