MSNBC did a poll...

[tjwash]

...in which it asked people if they thought opinion polls accurately reflected actual opinions.

88 percent polled said no.

Excerpt:
"Voters are remarkably bad at calculating their own self-interest, even when their self-interest and their political beliefs coincide. Bartels gives the following example. Only the richest 2 percent of Americans pay estate taxes. Yet among people who believe that the rich ought to pay more taxes, and who also believe that growing income inequality is a bad thing, two-thirds also favor repeal of the estate tax. Menand observes that this sort of data helps explain the otherwise puzzling fact "that the world's greatest democracy has an electorate that continually 'chooses' to transfer more and more wealth to a smaller and smaller fraction of itself."

[LisaLynne]

1. My prof ...

mentioned that in class last night. Now we're polling about polls. There's something obscene about that ...

[Xipe Totec]

2. Did you know that 40% or all quoted statistics are fake?

Including this one?

:evilgrin:

[tjwash]

3. 73.1 percent of state prisoners polled...

...don't like prison guards.

Hey this is fun, lets do a DU poll and send it to the papers as definitive proof that bush* is behind in the race.:toast: