**On the roster: Polls, again - Putin backs Trump, team Obama ‘worse than prostitutes’ - Ethics snarl Price Health secretary hearings - More Dems join inauguration boycott - Call it… IshmaelPOLLS, AGAINWouldn’t it be refreshing if Donald Trump – or any national politician really – didn’t believe the polls? “The same people who did the phony election polls, and were so wrong, are now doing approval rating polls,” Trump tweeted, “They are rigged just like before.”Trump was presumably responding to this survey from WaPo/ABC News that shows only 40 percent of American adults hold a favorable view of him. But the general thesis is this: national polls proved accurate, some state polls were screwy. The final average of credible national polls for last year’s election showed Hillary Clinton ahead by 3.4 points. Not bad, considering that the polls proved more predictive than in 2012 and were on par with those in 2008.

Source: Fox News January 17, 2017 21:11 UTC