Roger Simon makes a bizarre assertion:
Polls are predictions of the future. They are crystal balls. They are magic. Pollsters are wizards, shamans, diviners. They toss numbers around the way astragalomancers once tossed bones to foretell events to come. (The name comes from the Greek astragalos, meaning “knucklebone.” But you knew that.)
Seth Masket's head hits his desk.