Strike Me With Your Best Survey (Pat Benatar)

Language: Russian

I understand why people do surveys and polls and such. I don't understand why people will tell pollsters the truth. I mean, for a while there, lots of people, especially on the right, were complaining about how Bill Clinton was a flip-flopper and had no ideas of his own and was governing according to polls, and this was stupid and showed that he had no moral center or whatever. And during election years, especially Presidential elections, lots of people on the left complain about how media coverage of the campaign is all horse-race stuff: who's ahead, who's behind, and the issues don't get discussed at all. So it's clear that polling is a Big Problem.

But I've never heard anybody propose the obvious solution to too much polling: lying. If polls stopped reflecting the opinions and priorities of the populace, then they'd be useless, and at some point people would stop bothering to do them. Now, I suspect that excessive polling is probably the lesser of two evils: I just don't know what the other evil would be (though it's a safe bet that it's a descendant or former employee of George H. W. Bush). But even so, if you're really bothered, it's something to try. 2008 isn't that far away.

Anyway. I've seen Russian turn "shot" to "survey" a few times, but rarely so thoroughly and consistently. I approve of the resulting weirdness.

-Jessi

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