>>>Barring evidence to the contrary, why do you think the pollers are being dishonest?
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>>One friend out of 100 tells me one of three things: some of my friends are not being open about their feeling, I only have friends that agree with me or <> who do the polls are slanting the polls the way they want them.
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>So, you don't accept a poll that has thousands of participants, but you do accept a "poll" consisting of your friends?
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>>The news media only tells the public what they want to you to know, not what the truth is.
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>To some extent, you're right, of course. However, based on this, how do you get your information?

I don't acception ANY information (News Media, Polls, ect.) at face value. I accept them as the view of the source presenting them. You stated that 1000's of participants take part in the polls. Where is that information published? I have not seen a single poll in recent weeks state anything except the percentages. The poll maybe conducted with only 100 people, you can't be sure. When CBS or NBC (insert poll publisher) state that they have conducted a poll, who has actually (physically) conducted the poll. Has the news service actually done the work or do they contract a polling service? This information is not given. A branch of a political party maybe conducting the poll with 1000's of registered members of their party. (Both parties conduct polls so I'm not saying that one party is more honest then the other)

How can you blindly accept information as absolute truth without knowing the background of where, how and who collected it?

Fred Lauckner

You know, it works on my computer. I don't know what your problem is.

.Net aint so bad.