America must continue to be wary of role that pre-election polling and constant election updates have on our democracy. Rather than focusing on the candidates, we begin focusing on the game that it becomes.

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Rather than looking at debates as a time to listen to policy goals, we watch waiting for one candidate to lose their temper, and wait to see how it affects polling the next morning. 

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Truly, pre-election polling is not going anywhere in the near future. The American public demand to be informed, and therefore Nate Silver and FiveThirtyEight will continue to publish poll after poll after poll. But as the America, we must continue to ask ourselves how much attention we should really be giving to these poll results, knowing that so often they have severely misguided us. 

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Sports fans have their favorite team and they continue to root for that team even despite them messing up a play. For the most part, fans continue to support their team whether they win or lose. It is important that when it come to politics we are supporting the "team" that we truly believe in, rather than the party that we have grown up supporting, or the party that we see, based on polling, that the majority seem to agree with. The difference between sports and politics has become very clear: in sports there is a winner and a loser, in politics, we are all losers.