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Thread #115883   Message #2870537
Posted By: Little Hawk
24-Mar-10 - 02:23 AM
Thread Name: BS: Popular Views: the Obama Administration
Subject: RE: BS: Popular Views: the Obama Administration
Yeah, polls are usually designed to elicit certain responses. That is done by wording questions in such a way that you get the response you want from most people.

Some pollster called my Mother up the other day and asked her some political questions, then asked her which country she thought was the "worst country in the world" (politically speaking)....

My Mother said "The USA."

The woman at the other end of the line gasped in surprise...then said in a flustered way, "Uh...Thank you...well, that's all then. Goodbye!" and hung up in a hurry. It was quite clear that my Mother was not the kind of respondent that particular pollster was looking for... ;-) (I think she probably wanted to hear "Iran"...or maybe "North Korea").