Bogosity

Just minutes ago, I was contacted by someone conducting a political "poll" with questions about someone named Tremblay running for a NH office.

The first question was about affordable health care and her position on making some sort of law in NH that guarantees affordable health care for everyone. Did that make me more much more likely to vote for her, a little more likely to vote for her, or it made no difference / I had no opinion.

I gave a response, not one I was happy with, but the best I could do under the circumstances. Then there was another question, about tax incentives to small businesses for hiring new employees. I was given the same three options for acceptable answers.

I decided I wasn't playing this game and responded. "I can't believe there is no option for a negative response." The gal on the other end said that only the 3 described answers were permissible. To which I responded, "This is a bogus poll since it is designed to elicit only favorable or benign results. there is no way that the candidate can be seen in a bad light in this poll. Since it is a bogus poll, I will not to participate."

I did not wait for a response, I just hung up. Normally, I will take the time to answer pollsters questions, but this time there was no way that I was taking this one. It is pretty bad when the system is set up so the worst result that can come out of the "poll" is that her positions either had no affect on my decision to vote for her - or I didn't know enough about the issue to give a response.

I may go by the moniker of "Bogie", but bogusness is not rewarded by me on election day.