I don’t normally do an extra “best-of,” but I just stumbled over this post from 2016 and had to share it with you.
So there I was on the phone with the Marist College Poll, trying to answer dishonest questions honestly. I knew from my reading that the deck is routinely stacked by pollsters, to get the answers they want to get–but to experience it personally was frustrating. How can you have a decent conversation with people who just lie all the time? Whose idea of a clever question is “Have you stopped beating your wife yet?”
If there was ever a time when opinion polls were reliable guides to public opinion, that time has passed. Now they’re just taste tests for toxic public policies.
All these things are so annoying. Most of the polls are about things I have no interest in, and I try to avoid them if possible.
Recent polls show over 30% of millenniums identify with LBGTQ – the public schools are doing their job well, turning students into worshippers of government.
I was hoping I’d heard that wrong. Of course I hadn’t.