Five Reasons Why Polls should be outlawed

Polls should be outlawed. At a minimum, they need to be controlled like narcotics.  I am going to give you the five most compelling reasons. I report, you decide. (That is sarcasm. If you don’t understand that now, I hope you do by the end of the post.)

1. Polls are to politics what day trading and timing traders are to the stock market.- They put limits on the stock market, timing delays, trading halts, to limit people from trying to play technical odds and turn the stock market into straight up gambling, which can end up is disaster for the average investor.  Consider the Dow Jones graph that encompasses 9-11.  If the stock market hadn’t closed for awhile, what chaos would have resulted from emotional nonsense? Polls create the same nonsense.
2. It is impossible for a poll to be unbiased.- We report and you decide. We decide what we report though, then you decide. I think we know how that might come out. Don’t you? The classic question is: Did you stop beating your wife yet?  No right answer. When a new poll is initiated every time Trump or President to be Rand Paul  says something the media doesn’t like, it makes it controversial, even when it isn’t. Polls are always, always biased.
3. Polls encourage group-think and discourage actual thinking.- If you hadn’t heard a poll result, you might decide whom you would vote for by what they said. A poll makes it easier. You can be like the group. You can fit in.
4. There is no such thing as free. – You get polling information as free, yet someone paid for it. Did you pay for it? Someone paid for it. Who or whom? Why?
5. Stupid people wouldn’t vote without polls.  Stupid people shouldn’t vote.  I don’t believe in voter registration drives. Getting out the vote and encouraging people to vote who don’t know about the issues is like encouraging someone to carry a loaded AK-47 with the safety off who doesn’t know anything about guns. It is stupid. People who don’t know about guns are generally afraid of them and stay away from them. Somehow, we consider it a virtue to yank someone out of a soup line or a college bar to go vote when they have no clue as to what a President is, let alone the names of the candidates. Without polls, this problem would go away. Who would they vote for unless a poll told them who to vote for? Nobody. We would have people turn out who looked at the issues. Wouldn’t that be grand? It would be awesome for Rand Paul. Not so much for any body else.