Gallup, one of the oldest polling companies in the U.S., will not do any polling for presidential primaries this year. And Gallup may not poll for the general election either. See this story.
Gallup, one of the oldest polling companies in the U.S., will not do any polling for presidential primaries this year. And Gallup may not poll for the general election either. See this story.
Well, this is just great, I’ll tell you. Now I won’t know who I’ll vote for. And if Gallup decides to pull out of issues polling and starts a trend among their competitors, then I won’t know how I feel about the issues of the day. Pretty soon marketing companies will stop doing customer satisfaction surveys and I won’t know what to buy in the supermarket.
In fact, now that I think about this post, I’m not sure what I think about it. Can someone do a poll for me?
Thanks.
Favorable
Good post, Baronscarpia.
“Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will get a version of it through a desiccated question, and then will submerge it in a Niagara of similar opinions, and convert them into–what else?–another piece of news. Thus we have here a great loop of impotence: The news elicits from you a variety of opinions about which you can do nothing except to offer them as more news, about which you can do nothing.”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business