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A Pox on Your Polls

Polls show a majority of Americans want the troops to come home from the war in Iraq.

Polls also show a majority of Americans would rather be home on their couch in front of the television than at work at their desk in front of a computer screen.

We are sure that if a poll had been run in 1943, a majority of Americans would have wanted the troops to come home from the war in Europe and the Pacific . . . but, unfortunately, there was a job to be done.

The old adage about the jury system is that one's fate is in the hands of twelve people too stupid to get out of jury duty.

Perhaps we should begin to question whether our government policy should be made by five hundred or a thousand people too stupid to get out of a phone call with a glorified telemarketer.

Of course, then reporters might have to actually report and editors might be called upon to actually edit.

But, alas, polls show that a majority of media employees favor polls by greater than a ten-to-one margin.



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