George Bush on the campaign trail. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
US blogger Markos Moulitsas, who runs the dailykos.com and Our Congress, has written his latest column for Guardian Unlimited. He writes:
With one week to go, Americans are being inundated by polls. At least 112 have been published for the presidential contest in the last week alone.
While it's tempting to look at the jumble of results and declare polling hopelessly useless, fact is, polls have a great deal to tell us about the state of the race. And not in the way people generally assume ...
Read on here, and catch up with Guardian Unlimited's special report on the US election here. If you missed the last piece by Glenn Reynolds, who runs instapundit.com, you can read it here.