From Jimmy Breslin:
Anybody who believes these national political polls are giving you facts is a gullible fool.
Any editors of newspapers or television news shows who use poll results as a story are beyond gullible. On behalf of the public they profess to serve, they are indolent salesmen of falsehoods.
This is because these political polls are done by telephone. Land-line telephones, as your house phone is called.
The telephone polls do not include cellular phones. There are almost 169 million cell phones being used in America today – 168,900,019 as of Sept. 15, according to the cell phone institute in Washington.
There is no way to poll cell phone users, so it isn’t done.
That is why intelligent people pay no attention to the polls.
There’s only one poll that really matters. That’s the one in late November or early December when the Supreme Court is polled as to who should be Commander in Chief.
I got polled by a computer calling my telephone yesterday. It wanted to know (in multiple choice answers: likely, unlikely, etc.) whether I planned to vote for the president. And if I did, would I consider voting for Ralph Nadar? I’m curious who was paying for that one.