"polls are a free exercise of dialogue between people"

Oh, please. You are pretending to be defending free speech, Amos, but what you are really defending is entrenched media and party power structures and blind, unquestioning, habitual behaviour. You are defending sheer ruthless pragmatism, devoid of moral principle.

I think that if your founding fathers had envisioned what would happen in the future they would have written in your Constitution that there shall be no public polling results published in regards to elections as it would unduly prejudice the minds of the public and thereby interfere with the democratic process.

They were quite concerned with the "pure metaphysical abstract view" of society and they attempted as best they could to create a document with that in mind...but they just had no idea how badly things could get perverted over a couple of centuries of social and political and technological development.

Your Constitution is probably no longer adequate to deal with what is happening now, because it was worded in the terms of a bygone age when people thought differently and were dealing with a very different situation.

This continues to be a problem. In a way, it's a bit comparable to the problem that fundamentalist Christians get themselves into when they give modern and literal interpretation to stuff that was written several thousand years ago in a completely different social order.

The words and intentions become badly misconstrued. The original ideals and intentions fall by the wayside.