If you are going to vote for the establishment candidate why are you on Democratic Underground?

[Bernin4U]

100. IWR was a popularity contest

Your representative will have voted for it, for one of two reasons:

1. They believed the "intelligence". (Were they a middle school dropout?)

2. Because it was popular.

There's a good reason we kept getting the "90% public approval" polling shoved down our throats. Did anyone believe those numbers?

The officials who follow polls voted "yea". Those who vote their conscious voted "nay".

It's simple psychology. People want the reassurance that their opinion is valid.

It doesn't matter that the popular thing, and the more correct or higher quality thing, are completely unrelated. People still make the association.

So polls play a huge role in people's perception. And if a poll is going your way, hype it to death. It's a great way to influence others. It truly helps to convince them that you're more "correct".

Voting based on the polls is never the right thing to do.