Democracy wasn't meant to be an exercise in push-button policy making.
Polling overrides good judgment. I call it the politics over people paradox: gut judgment about what's best, what's not, what feels right and wrong-- the sort of judgments people make everyday- is trumped by what a poll indicates is most popular.
HuffPo's acquisition of Pollster.com and Kos'lawsuit against Survey 2000highlight the legitimacy of an abused and often misleading art form masked as robust analytical analysis.
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