AS I SAID, a good night for the Republicans. And I suspect that it’s Bush’s campaign swing that made most of the difference. Even some of the winning Republicans seemed surprised, though, at the difference between the vote and their final tracking polls. I think that indicates — as with the VNS debacle — that polls are becoming increasingly unreliable for a variety of reasons.

I think it’s a good thing that polls are becoming unreliable. Maybe as that becomes clear, politicians will stop paying so much attention to them in between elections.