#3 HuffPost – You tried. You failed.
Imagine a voter whose ‘single issue’ is a ban on high capacity-magazine clips for ammunition. Ok, now that we are done living in that post-apocalyptic dystopia, let’s talk about the poll.
1. The question behind this question: do you care more about people having bullets for assault weapons more than party lines/platforms/other political issues?
You don’t. So shall we move on?
2. Assault weapons ban, and gun control are still along party lines, and assault weapons are 100% legal.
If you are interested in gun control, or at least a ban on assault weapons, how does opposing something without support ever get anything done in congress? Did you see how the ban on assault weapons bill failed?
The weapon is still around, and not going anywhere any time soon. It has no Republican support. Empty rhetoric about the bullets, clips, and magizines won’t make a registered Democrat vote Republican, sorry.
3. Are we talking Congressional election, Senate race, Presidential?
This is crucial and not even mentioned. How am I supposed to imagine this election when you won’t tell me in what context– Local, State, or National?
Let’s go with local: Congress might matter more to a voter since it is local and changes your home district- Hands down, Congress would be the most entertaining debate. Imagine a Republican opposing assault weapon ammunition against the whole entire party. That’s social suicide. Who will he/she eat with in the congressional cafeteria? How will they raise money for reelection? What about the lobbyists? No one, nothing, and the NRA will team up with CrossRoads and the Tea Party candidate to take them down. If Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy is anything like Frank Underwood, he’ll strangle that poor guy with his bare hands, like a dog hit by car, to put him out of his misery.
#2 Politico- Filler Poll or Slow News Day?

Explanation not needed. This is probably the most useless data gathering and sorriest excuse for a public opinion poll. Sorry I can’t refund your 20 seconds.
#1IdealLog.org – Winner of the WTF Award


Not a poll, but this ad on http://www.idealog.org/ is too good in the worst way.
This organization “asks students to classify themselves according to the four-fold ideology typology”
The Self-Test that requires students to answer twenty questions—drawn from national surveys—which are equally divided between the conflict of individual freedom vs. social order, and the conflict of individual freedom vs. social equality. Based on their responses, students are classified into one of four ideological types. Their ideological scores are then compared with the scores for the public’s responses to the same twenty questions.
At the end of the quiz you find if you are a young Reagan or Lenin, how disturbing.