Tonight’s blog is a little bit political. Not because I’m really talking politics but based around my frustration with those blasted opinion polls that seem to release their useless findings on a weekly basis.
I’m pretty sure that the agencies that conduct these polls have duped every type of media into believing that the majority of Australians want to hear their useless results.
Let’s face it, as far as politics is concerned the only poll that counts is the one held on Election Day.
I am heartily sick of the presidential style polling that goes on and on and on and on. In Australia the Prime Minister is elected by the party, that holds the most seats in the House of Representatives. Australians do not elect a Prime Minister so who cares who is more popular.
As you can probably gather not me. The Prime Minister is just a mouthpiece for the party line and the ultimate person whose head is on the chopping block if everyone else runs for cover.
Those opinion pollsters only ask a few thousand people and although they try to get a reasonable cross section of the community the questions they ask can be slanted.
Kevin Rudd was a so-called popular Prime Minister but it didn’t save his skin did it? It’s all done in back rooms, getting the necessary numbers, well out of the public eye.
Don’t believe everything you read and certainly don’t take any notice of the polls, because they don’t mean a thing.
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