It does lead to a question of:Do the polls reflect the possible...

It does lead to a question of:

Do the polls reflect the possible election result or are the polls able to influence the election result if highlighted and presented by the media in a calculated way.


In all communities, there is a tendency to flock to a certain extent, safety is in the center of the pack even if only when expressing an opinion.

You would have to be willfully blind not to know what sort of answer the leftist media want to get from you to a series of questions about how John Howard's government has been and if you think it is time for a change.

Even the body-language of the questioner, the wording of the questions and the order of the questions can have an intended and possibly planned influence on the answer.

Continual widespread publication and mention of polls that are negative to John Howard send a clear, not-so-subliminal message to all that might be asked poll questions in future.... if they want to be considered acceptable by the bulk of the community and safely centerist, then be negative about John Howard.

Many who are asked will just toe the line and expect that someone else will stand up for what they really believe and so save the day for Australia and re-elect John Howard's government.

Continuing highlighting of negative polls tend to create more negative polls by a social learning, group-think process and may even influence the election outcome.

An who is in control of deciding what poll results are relevant and how much media time to give each one?

The out-of-control 24 hour news/entertainment/media complex setting the narrative for the community and filtering the news to fit that narrative is a real danger to Australia.