I know you like them, but - to what end a relentless stream of 'polls' with questionable merit other than feeding a lazy media focus as 'evidence'? ☺️
I hate to say it, but the only one that matters is election day. Given how the results of last election are being so spectacularly ignored, the regular drip feed of .0000?% of (?) population is pointless, and damaging for all. I repeat, who is paying and why? Who is polled etc etc. The agenda is likely rife with (un)conscious bias.
And not to mention ignoring the significant and widespread results of polling in favour of a gas tax, no gambling ads etc etc etc.
If after a litmus test of 'mood' just ask around colleagues, friends, club members, folk at the pub / grocer. It amounts to the same thing. And who knows what tomorrow brings to further render the results pointless.
Sure, maybe annual polls at a set time, targeting a broad range of folk could be useful to test policy rather than grievance. Not enabling ON and the hideous division promote via the plethora of polls and media that plays with the data.
Its become a lucrative side business of government, along with lobbyists.
SallyABL2
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