2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I know the DU is only a petri dish in the big picture but [View all]NanceGreggs
(27,815 posts)... is not a matter of "can't" - it's a matter of "why bother"?
I don't know why not bothering with a useless endeavour - which on-line polls are - is seen as some kind of inability to multi-task, or an incapacity to do so. Why should anyone need "an excuse" not to participate in something they find pointless?
Hundreds of thousands of people participate in on-line discussions about their favourite TV shows - MILLIONS of viewers of those same shows don't. It has nothing to do with interest or enthusiasm - it is simply a matter of not feeling any need to participate in on-line conversations about it.
It's rather silly, IMHO, to conclude that any "excuse" is needed to explain why one does not spend even a second of their time engaging in on-line activities that are utterly useless. And on-line political polls are as useless as it gets.