re: Huffington's call against polling...
I had not heard of Huffington's call. As a former pollster myself, I actually agree with her. In Texas, I worked part-time for a friend's polling firm for 3 years. We polled during several important Texas state and national elections. I was young, and my brain was young, but over time I began to see that the questions we were asking were slanted. (My friend is one of the staunchest Republicans you'll ever meet.) Then I realized frequently that the way I read the question could sometimes lead the person being polled to answer a certain way. :-) Little theatre artist trying out her interpretive muscles... As much as I enjoyed the calling because I got to "meet" all kinds of interesting people in their homes and hear their views, I quit. The polling science was too fuzzy even if they did pay me well. I was working for the Dark Side, and I didn't like it. My friend's polling firm is still doing booming business and reinforcing the Republican way of life in Texas through its harvesting of "reliable" data. Too many people do base their opinions on that crap. I'm down with Huffington and will join her no poll call. What do you think? Do you agree?
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