Indeed Ross ... similarly anything that's reported on the popular media is open to question. There was a time when the media was an honerable industry and reported the 'facts' Those facts were well grounded and seldom called into disrepute. Now even a primary school kid can refute current media 'facts'.
Radio polls are seldom worth the paper they're written on. What they do seem to highlight is that someone (or group) is fishing for something to base a particular self interest on - for their own ends. Objectivity is a rare commodity (even in judging poetry it seems). ...
If we want to 'fix' things based on inaccurate 'facts' we will never be able to address the real issues because all our efforts would be flimsy, facile and fleeting; not well grounded at all. The result is usually millions of dollars in wasted effort and misplaced good intent ... and this is what leaves everyone with a bad taste in their mouth.