Politicians like to say that the only poll that matters is on Election Day. That's starting to be more true.
Polls in the Kentucky governor's race consistently showed Democrat Jack Conway with a slight lead over Republican Matt Bevin. Not only did Bevin win, but it wasn't even close. Bevin took 53 percent of the vote to Conway's 44 percent.
The day after the election,
The Lexington Herald-Leader announced it would dump Survey USA as its pollster.
"We might as well buy monkeys and dartboards vs. what we had here with Survey USA," tweeted Scott Jennings, a Republican consultant in Kentucky.
Read the full Governing Magazine story here.
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