The Patriot Post® · What Are the Polls Telling Us?

What are the polls telling us? Well, lets take a closer look. Gallup is an un-sponsored poling organization. That is, they accept no funding from interested organizations such as the Democratic or Republican political parties. For example on June 17, 2012 the approval/disapproval rating for Obama showed both ratings at 46%.

The Rasmussen Poll and Gallup are consistently rated 1-2 by those who judge such things. Another highly respected pollster is the Quinnipiac University Poll, apparently unbiased. Further checking leads to a not unexpected conclusion: The pollsters are not particularly reliable. What might we then conclude with any degree of certainty? Virtually nothing!

Therefore I propose to just look at some of the conclusions and at some of the unasked questions.

After Monday night’s New Hampshire debate. Two names stood out from the pack, Romney and Bachmann. Some reporters felt that Mitt Romney was the clear winner, others that he and Ms. Bachmann were about even. From the reports on the debate and from the conclusions drawn, I knew nothing more than I knew before the debate.

One very clear notion presents itself, the press corps is attempting to perpetuate the notion that a male candidate is expected to prevail as has been the result in every previous election in America. I have a problem with that notion and to date, I am the only one of whom I am aware who is questioning that notion.

Universal suffrage has been the law of the land since the passage and adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to our Constitution in 1920. However, the first woman to become a Presidential candidate was Victoria Claflin Woodhull, the candidate of the National Radical Reformers (http://www.infoplease.com/spot/womensfirsts1.html).

In 1916, Jeanette Rankin was elected to the United States House of Representatives from Montana and in 1933; Frances Perkins was the first woman to serve in a cabinet position. The history of Kanab, UT boasts the first all-female city government elected in 1911; however the first all-female town government following passage of the 19th Amendment was in Jackson Hole, Wyoming on 1920 and they also appointed a female Town Marshall, Pearl Williams.

In any event, America is far behind the rest of the world in electing woman to high office. In fact, Forty-seven women have been elected to and served as the Head of Government (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_elected_or_appointed_female_heads_of_government). And to add insult to injury, even American females seem indisposed toward all-out support for females who seek high office. Even though the suffragists who fought valiantly for the right to vote, today’s woman appears lethargic in her efforts to get our qualified ladies on the ballot for high office. Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat was adamantly opposed to women’s suffrage, FDR made a token appointment of Frances Perkins to his cabinet and incidentally the only cabinet member to serve throughout all his terms.

So, the polls tell us who is running and the succinct questions asked of respondents suggests how voters may vote. Polls are seldom if ever accurate and one question I have never seen or heard asked is roughly this, “Would you be favorably inclined to an all-female Presidential ticket in the next Presidential election?” I believe that is a fair and requisite question to be put to the public.

I know I would welcome and support such a ticket. We must at least test the waters. America has some of the best educated, battle-tested, and physically attractive ladies on the face of the earth waiting in the wings to prove they are ready for the leading role.

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