Survey Says...

Politicians worry a lot about their approval rating, or what this poll said or that one, so how is it that they can be so out of touch with the American public? I thought about this exact question and then it dawned on me that all the polls and surveys they do are over the phone. Well, I haven't had a land line for years, and when I did, I treated the people who called when I was trying to eat like they had the plague.

So who is answering these surveys? Well first it has to be people with a regular phone. Then those people can't screen their phone calls, or have an answering machine. The people answering the pollsters also have to be people willing to spend thirty or more minutes of their day, while their dinner is getting cold, and their wife is giving them the evil eye, to answer the same question reworded over and over.

Those requisites excludes a huge majority of the population of the United States, like anyone younger than forty, or anyone with a job. It also wipes out people who have hobbies, and people who are working a second job. It probably eliminates most parents, and those of us who hunt or fish.

The people left to answer the pollster's daily probings end up being my grandmother, the houseful of illegal immigrants down the street, the lifer welfare recipients, my retarded neighbor, oh, and Paris Hilton home on house arrest. No wonder our government thinks we want public health care, a bunch of illegal immigrants, and increased taxes.

If they really want to get the pulse of the American public, they should send the survey out with my IRS forms, with $100 deductible if I fill it out and send it in. They'd get opinions from the people paying the bills at least, and at the time they payed them.

Torqued