Beware of early polls;
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/13/opinion/polls/main3497993.shtml
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1657478,00.html
A poll is (after you correct your spelling) a long, straight, fairly rigid object commonly used to suspend wires or other devices off the ground or surrounding water.
If you insist on the “poll” as correct spelling, I won’t bother with a definition.
It simply doesn’t have any real function, unless you consider propaganda to be real world.
I haven’t trusted polls ever since Pontius Pilate took one in that courtyard in Jerusalem.