Opinion Polls

After President Bush's news conference, the followup talking head discussion on FOX News went something like this (paraphrasing):

Britt Hume: "Do you think that the president moved the ball forward tonight on the issues he discussed?"

Nina Easton (Boston Globe): "The president says that he doesn't follow polls. This whole news conference clearly was based on poll issues..."

So Miss Easton of the leftist partisan Boston Globe Newspaper thinks that the president should have gone on national TV and talked about what?

The NBA basketball playoffs?

Good bass fishing on Lake Eufala in Alabama?

The latest antics of the Bush twins?

It used to be that opinion polls in theory attempted to scientifically measure a true cross-section of American demographics.

Not anymore.

Have you ever been "polled"? No one has ever called my house. Who the heck are these people that they are polling anyway?

Just like the press conference questions, here is how poll questions are worded today...

Question #1: Do you believe that President Bush beats his wife? (yes or no)

Question #2: If the he does, should he quit? (yes or no)

The next day after the results are tabulated, the headline in practically every single newspaper would read as follows:

Americans Believe President Should Stop Beating First Lady!!

Am I not correct?