POLLS NOT PUBLISHED

This story may be of national interest, given how obsessively people are poll-watching this week. I had a conversation with the Lorain County Board of Elections here in northern Ohio, and they report unprecedented (and significantly larger than usual) voter registrations. The numbers are so great that they are slowing the board's ability to mail confirmations to new voters. This could lead to chaos, but is also another reason to ignore polls measuring likely voters as opposed to registered voters. The former are the ones favoring Bush, and they are less likely to account for this surge than the registered-voter polls do.

Cuyahoga County is experiencing a similar influx of registrations.

Unfortunately, every kind of poll has Voinovich up by double-digits on Fingerhut. Maybe it's time for another walking tour.