A newly released Vanderbilt University survey of 1,000 registered voters in Tennessee has found that Republicans and Democrats have different opinions.
Don’t you wish your job were that easy?
That the opinion of slightly more than .01% of the population of Tennessee is relevant may be dubious, but it doesn’t keep such surveys from becoming news.
However, the results of such surveys, or polls, always rest on who is asking the questions, how the questions are asked and what the backing organization or candidates want the results to be.
It used to be that such queries were out to find statistically accurate opinions, but the hyperpartisan bent of the country has changed that. Most polls now are taken to show that “my side” is right, or leading, or favored.