Taxing
Polls!
People keep
saying we need to get rid of all the dark
money in political campaigns. That's true,
but I think it's time we also think about
getting rid of polling. It's no longer
a dependable source of information when
you consider all media is owned by seven
(or fewer) men, and none
of them are particularly progressive. (See
today's Classic
Crappola comic)
In fact, I'll hazard the supposition that
no one
would
currently
give a rat's
patoot
about Trump, that braying jackass, if the
network
news wasn't constantly trumpeting the results
of polls
that are
as questionable as the news itself. Never
forget that several polls showed Romney
winning the White House in run-up to the
2012 election.
As memory
serves, Mittens lost by, oh, I dunno, a
lot.
Think how much fun it'd be to watch candidates
flail, being totally uncertain if their daily
message was hitting the perfect demographic
sweet spot. Think how quiet it would be
around the dinner table come election time when the phones weren't ringing every
fifteen minutes. Think about all the money
you'd take out
of unscrupulous
pollster's
pockets
when they no longer have a 350 million
strong
fishpond to seine for free information.
Polls are not much better than gambling as they are just as easily rigged. And
as
we
all
know,
the house always wins.
However, we do need one type of polling....
exit polling, as it provides an unassailably
accurate picture of who the proles prefer...
unless you're living in a Republican-owned
state then all bets are off. But even this
could be eliminated if we all switched
to mail-in ballots.
Works for Oregon, Colorado,
and Washington.
=Lefty=
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