Polls as news are at best manufactured news (write a poll and then have a big news story about what it "means") and at worst a socially endorsed form of peer pressure.

Oh, WELL SAID.

I am personal rather in favor of telling the pollsters to fuck off, but I'm thinking that your idea of lying to them? Brilliant; it derails the "accuracy" of the damned things even farther, calls into question the "science" behind them.

Lookie at my Sarah Jane!