Your dad is a very wise man!
It just gets to me a little from time to time how most of the MSM run polls which are skewed to get the answers they want and then broadcast the results day and night like that's what all of America thinks (ohhh, the President's in trouble, his numbers are way down, most Americans don't support the war, blah, blah, blah). Rather than polling an even sample of R, D and I and likely voters, if the person is breathing,then they poll them and toss in extra Dims for good measure and also assure the questions are worded to get the answers they want.