For you poll addicts

Here's a fascinating site from Princeton that's doing meta-analysis of current election polls. They summarize the daily data, but also provide discussion of poll reliability, how the undecideds factor into reading the statistics, some history, and even the relative value of various places you could spend your volunteer time.

http://synapse.princeton.edu/~sam/pollcalc.html

I need to go back and dig around there a bit during lunch, but it's definitely worth some time, especially if the swings and margins of error are making you pull your hair out . . .

(thanks to Rob Geen for the link)

Update: It turns out that Salon is also trying to do some analysis with their poll presentation. They have the requisite colored map, but down below they list a clump of recent polls for each state and give the reasoning for their summary read. Quite nice.