Good point there, Mark. The trick with polls is how you word the questions! If you word them in a clever enough manner, you can get the poll to support any given viewpoint you want. Politicians know this, so do pollsters, and they plan accordingly.

That is what is commonly known as chicanery.

Or to use Amos's method shown above to descrive the pollster:

It's a) I plan my poll expeditiously b) you mislead to some extent c) he lies like a rug!

- LH