I agree they are at least somewhat slanted for sure. What is the intended result?
Whatever is desired by the one who commissioned the poll.
Polsters know how to construct a poll (the wording, etc.) to get desires responses.
Look at some of the recent criticisms of polls/newsies by Pat Cadell, for example.
But it seems like the only practical reason to ultimately create a skewed poll is to somehow influence potential voters, right? Either to suppress turnout, or create more turnout, or to make people switch to the most popular winning side based on opinion polling.
Freegards