Comment 42695

By realitycheck (anonymous) | Posted July 01, 2010 at 14:58:28

Judging by the percentages returned for the Chamber's questions, it would appear that very few actually participate in these poll questions. The only poll result with hard numbers of respondants available was a question about the management of the HSR, which had a whopping 7 respondants. The percentage results of 57% in favour of the status quo vs 43% in favour of an independant body leaves the impression that the vote was decidedly in favour of the status quo, when in reality the vote tally was 4-3.

Frankly, I don't understand why people pay any attention to these types of polls under any circumstance. Their wording, their pedestrian nature and the inevitable periodic vote manipulation by social media zombies brings their usefulness to political discourse down to the same level as chicken entrails for fortune telling, or lucky troll dolls for the bingo hall.

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