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Do any people beside political junkies, TV and radio bloviators pay attention to polls? I don't know, and I'm not sure any does.
Yesterday our OEN friend John Wood, Sr. emailed me this:
Hi Everyone,
PBS is doing one of those instant on-line polls to ask ' America ' if they think Sarah Palin is fit to be Vice President. The GOP has launched a successful all-out blitz to get Republicans to go on the site and click 'Yes'.
As a result right now it looks like 62% of America thinks Palin is qualified. The Republicans are going to be milking this for all its worth in their press efforts.
We need to drive more Democrats and those opposed to Palin to the site to click 'NO'.
Let's not give the GOP another easy weapon to put in their > PR arsenal! > Here's the link: http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.htmlYou don't have to enter your email address or anything, just click 'NO'.
I obliged and forwarded the email to a bunch of people, half of whom emailed me back and said that when they voted the results were 49-all, the same total that came up when I voted.
The interesting thing was the email I got from my friend, Joy. She said she’d voted in that poll a week ago.
Not having seen the poll on PBS’ Web site, I’m taking Joy’s word -- and I’m sure she’s right -- that their poll has been up for a week, if not longer.
Therefore my thesis:
It’s possible that it wasn’t all that easy to get Republican to stuff the ballot box for her, plus the fact that it’s one-vote per person and your computer is cut off from voting again…and again…and again.
More likely, it could be that a week ago the results were 62-percent in favor of Palin, because it was before the infamous Katie Couric interview and a dozen or more unfavorable stories about Palin, and Palin being her own worst hoof-in-the-mouth enemy.
That could account for her favorable rating dropping from 62-percent to 49-percent, which is still frighteningly high, all thing considered.
If the unfavorable publicity was the cause of the drop in the poll results, it more or less disproves the old saying that “publicity, any publicity, even the bad kind, is better than no publicity.”
