Amen!
I’ve become convinced that polling is the newest and most cost-effective form of propaganda and public-opinion manipulation. Anyone can come out with a press release SAYING they’ve done a poll with blah-blah-blah results — and some people, even some of US - woudld believe it!
Think about it. We reject Algore climate crapscience, yet we can’t wait to pass along the next poll and fret over it!
I’ll bet it would cost millions in advertising to move public opinion as much as one phoney-baloney-plastic-banana poll! And the pollsters are counting on people continue to be dumb enough not to realize it.
I 100% agree. I have no idea how this election will turn out and neither do the people constructing these polls. If anyone's polls prove accurate they will be more surprised than anyone. All the polls, even the ones we are winning, are pure pollproganda and meant to manipulate not inform.
The fact that elections now consist almost 100% of meaningless "gaffes" and BS polls is a sign of the sickness of our political system.
Polling as propaganda - as part of the means to effect public opinion, is certainly not new. At least since (before) World War I...