—3)It seems how the Americvan people thought and voted in the last election was, shall we say, totally unexpected?—
No it wasn’t. The polls predicted it. I just thought the polls HAD to be wrong. They were not. I was wrong and learned from it.
Exactly. Oddly enough, despite the yahoos who flog around on FR loudly proclaiming that polling is all cooked and none of it is "scientific," most reputable polling houses like Rasmussen, Gallup, and even PPP tend to be pretty consistently right.
It's just that FReepers often don't like the results of some polls, and therefore assume that they "must" be wrong/faked/cooked etc.