Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
People have different ways of interpreting history.
Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise.
Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.
A lot of the time nothing happens in a day.
I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.