Don’t Trust Opinion Polls

Opinion polls are both constitutionally stupid and slightly sinister.
Most opinion polls need to be viewed with a lot of suspicion, and read very carefully.
Such polls do not just happen.
Someone decides to commission them, for a reason.
This costs a lot of money.
And the questions that are asked can themselves be used to create opinions where none existed.
They are a device to manipulate public opinion, not a device for measuring it.