I continue to be surprised at how polling data is taken seriously by the media despite being completely wrong the past two elections specifically and more often than not before that.

I'm going to go ahead and guess that the French population has caught on to the dangers of polling (or have always understood it) and are by nature misleading those polls and best of all ignoring them before voting.

Americans have the pathetic, sad and depressing tendency to vote the way the polls are, you know, because people like to vote for a winner.  UGH.