Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utai.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!utai!perelgut From: perelgut@utai.UUCP (Stephen Perelgut) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: Capital Punishment Referendum Message-ID: <255@utai.UUCP> Date: Thu, 4-Oct-84 15:13:18 EDT Article-I.D.: utai.255 Posted: Thu Oct 4 15:13:18 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Oct-84 15:43:56 EDT References: <804@ubc-ean.CDN> <66@utcsrgv.UUCP> Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 13 > Eugene Fiume >I hope it's obvious to everyone that the recent calls for the return of the >death penalty is almost totally the result of a media blitz. Just as the >the incredible number of polls prior to the election shaped public opinion, >instead of the other way around,... Are you suggesting that the media is making up poll results and influencing public opinion, or are you suggesting that the media should not report polls since they might tend to influence the undecided portion of the populace into taking a stand. My vote was not changed by the media blitz, and that holds for most intelligent people. Should we have gullability tests before allowing people to vote.