Carrie Hutchens speaks out once again.
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In Hillary's victory speech last night, she thanked the people of New Hampshire for helping her find her own voice. I wonder what it is that voice will say in comparison to all the other voices we have heard in the past months upon months of listening to her. Curiosity is not something I have ever denied having. I even wonder if the Clinton new-found voice will accidentally give voice to others more deserving.
It is no secret that I don't like Hillary Clinton, nor do I believe in her way of life or politics. However, Hillary does deserve credit for doing what has needed to be done for years. She destroyed the illusion that "polls" are pure gospel in reflecting true public opinion. After all, the poll results leading up to the NH primary were anything but what actually happened, and they didn't even have any trick questions to trip up the poll-voters. What does that say about polls and polling?
Maybe the message in Hillary's New Hampshire win is that polls are not the ultimate last word. They are not necessarily accurate. Sometimes they don't represent, even in the slightest, what the public thinks and feels. So maybe...just maybe...they ought to be demoted back to the rank of importance they were initially designed to hold--a "tool" to get an idea of public opinion--and not considered the absolute final vote of what the majority of people think about anything. And definitely not a tool utilized to sway the votes of those who simply want to go along with the crowd and therefore presumably with the winner.
In Terri Schiavo's case, the polls, in my opinion, were often stacked against even getting a hint as to what the public actually thought, or might think, simply by the way the questions were being asked and the answer options available. The suggestion was often that Terri Schiavo was actually "brain dead" and merely being kept alive by machines. Little did many know that the "life support" being referred to was merely a feeding tube. Little did many people know that their uninformed opinion in a poll might one day be utilized to kill off the young woman that was guilty of nothing more than being disabled through no fault of her own.
Terri Schiavo never had a chance to find her voice, such as what Hillary Clinton claims to have discovered in New Hampshire after the votes proved the polls to be a totally untrue representation--a mere delusion! After all, apparently (by their reaction), until tonight those news people reporting on the election thought the polls were the absolute in defining what was and what was to come!
Too bad the realization of defective polls didn't slap people up side the head a couple of years ago when it might have saved the life of an innocent woman. But it didn't. However, with Hillary's win in New Hampshire, nobody can deny that poll results are defective and unreliable. Maybe that will be the voice heard from here on out! The actual votes will tell!
Hillary Clinton Claims Own Voice in Wake of NH Win
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