"One thousand" can be a large number in many instances. Finding a thousand bucks under your mattress that you somehow forgot about–what a nice surprise. Being chased by one thousand bees intent on stinging you–a nightmare that could kill you. Having a thousand bottled waters on hand for emergencies–better have a big storage area for that. Getting a thousand presents for your birthday? It will take all of your birthday plus some to open all those.

Then again, a thousand can be an embarrassingly small number. If the attendance at an NFL or NBA or major league baseball game was 1,000, that would be "news"–bad news for the home team. If that continued, the franchise would likely fold, or move. A thousand grains of sand? That won’t take up much room. A thousand inches? That’s a little less than 28 yards.

What is the meaning of this? What does the media rush to tell us about at every opportunity, at least if it favors Big Media’s candidate? Polls. Obama is ahead according to this poll and that poll. A few weeks ago, McCain was ahead according to other polls. There are polls that report something almost every day, with varying results. Does that mean some portion of America changes its mind every day? That some of us jump from one side of the fence to the other, and then perhaps back and forth a few more times, based upon today’s latest issue or campaign ad?

What it means is that virtually all of these polls are based upon a very SMALL number of people. Many polls are based upon less than a thousand participants. A few may have 1200 or 1500 or thereabouts, but several will have "798" or "903" or "675" or some such number.

In a nation of over 300 million people, these poll results "inform" us as to what everyone in America thinks? Did you know over 120 million people voted in the 2004 presidential election? And Big Media is going to tell us what all of them think based upon polling a thousand or less? Also, just where are these 1,000 people located? Who are they? How many are Democrats, Republicans, or independents? Have you ever been called to give an opinion in a presidential poll? Us neither.

We think we could get pretty much any result we wanted if we interviewed the "right" participants, called certain areas, and phrased the questions in a way that helped us reach that result. There are polls that have the name of the media outlet as their identifying mark, "according to the latest [name of newspaper and/or TV network] poll, a majority of people now think"...whatever those results say, supposedly.

Here’s a question we have: if Big Media newspapers and television networks lean left–and their liberal bias is undeniable, in our opinion–then what about their polls?

Are we to trust their polls, if we can’t trust what they "report" in the first place?

When one newspaper puts Obama’s face on its front page almost twice as much as it puts McCain, and even gets called to task for that by its own "ombudsman," are we to believe that its polls are "accurate," conducted fairly, and free from bias? Especially when that paper sets off the "TILT" alarm since it leans so far to the left?

If you do think those polls are free from bias...That guy with the deed to the Brooklyn Bridge...he’s right in front of you now, and he thinks he’s just seen a sucker, so watch out...

In our opinion, it appears to us that at least some in the media may be using these "polls" to try and ingrain into the American psyche that Obama is "bound" to win this election, that it is some kind of irresistible force that we cannot alter or change. To that, we must say, what a piece of junk. So–according to a thousand people–Obama has "widened" his lead to five/six/seven [or pick a number] percentage points? The results from those thousand, whoever they are, wherever they are, whatever political party they do or do not belong to, according to them, "McCain faces an uphill struggle," or "Obama’s lead is increasing" or, basically, reality is whatever Big Media says it is.

We aren’t big fans of jumping off of a cliff just because "the elite" say it is the thing for us to do. We don’t check our brains at the door when we walk into the TV room or pick up a newspaper. To us, it is not even a close question as to who should be president–that is John McCain. We realize people can have their own differing opinions as to that choice, and that is the American way.

What is not the American way is for the liberal media to openly, and with no shame whatsoever, blatantly favor for the presidency the most liberal candidate to ever represent a major political party–and one with far-left views, questionable associations (to put it mildly), and swirling allegations of fraudulent voter registration and voter fraud in numerous states–the latter allegedly accomplished by a supposedly "non-partisan" entity with which that candidate has a long history, though his campaign denies the depth and extent of that relationship–an entity which is supported in no small part by your tax dollars.

Let’s not get carried away with every changing wind that the "polls" report. Regardless of what those 745, 903, or 1,017 people think, if the rest of us get out and vote, and cast our ballots for McCain/Palin, then their polls might be shown for what they just might be.