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Political surveys want one opinion: Theirs
The Gazette Opinion Staff
Aug. 26, 2012 1:53 pm
The telephone opinion surveys I have been receiving have been remarkably similar in their pattern. A question is asked and then I am given usually three different choices and I can indicate choice A, B, or C. If the seemingly different choices are looked at closely they all support a single national party committee and by implication a particular party's candidate.
When I ask whether they want my opinion or theirs, the line goes dead. It would seem that the only opinion they want to hear is their own. Is this expenditure of donated campaign funds from thousands of party supporters any indication of how our tax money will be spent?
Jon deNeui
Elkader
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