MY God!! This is actually really shocking, the world ( or maybe North America) is really as badly informed as I thought it was. The problem with these polls and the statistics that they represent is that they never really get a good cross-section of the populace. The demographics are always cockeyed and I tend never to believe polls. It´s like betting on horse racing, you bet forever and never win anything. Then suddenly you get a largish resulyt and you think you have won, whereas you haven´t really. Polls sling figures and "facts" at people that can never really be proved, until they hit on a prediction and it comes true.