I am long amused at the predictability of the polls. These bastions of political opinion. Mirrors of the Australian voters Psyche. Almost daily offering the worms reflections of the opinion of the everyday Australian. I wonder who does these polls? I wonder what questions they ask? You see I have never had the opportunity in almost 50 years on the ground of ever being asked my opinion to be included in the poll figures. As a matter of fact I don't know anyone who has? I do know some people that have come close. Although after being asked if they were swinging voters and responding in the negative. Then being asked who they do vote for ( a peculiar and very personal question to be asking any stranger over the phone) and upon answering labor being told they don't qualify to participate in this poll. Dang maybe next time! Infer what you will from the facts of this exchange regarding the impartiality and in fact the legality of these behind closed doors so called polls. I surveyed ten of my mates. 100% feel Abbott couldn't lie straight in bed. 100% also believe Gillard is doing the best job of any prime minister in decades. I guess it's just who you ask? I didn't need to ask who they vote for to skew my figures tho, they just came out that way!
In my business I talk to a lot of people every day (a broad cross section of the community) and brouching the subject of politics I would say one in twenty is sticking to Labor or the Greens and even they say Labor and Gillard have made a lot of mistakes. The other nineteen are VERY unhappy with the present federal government.
You're under no obligation to participate in any polls. Your example was obviously not a national Newspoll or Galaxy poll about federal politics. All sorts of groups do polling for all sorts of different things. And polling is done in samples, it doesn't matter if you or your friends haven't personally been asked to participate.
