Pollsters Are Annoying #289 By Hank Silverberg Commentary Have you gotten a phone call from a pollster yet? Or have you been asked to take one on line? The general election is about five months away, and I have already been inundated with people taking polls. I must be on some list. It's not that I mind expressing my opinion anonymously to a pollster who may work for one of the candidates or one of the big polling companies. It's just the questions are sometimes repetitive or require an answer not among the answers provided. Many of them are "yes" or "no" with no shades of gray. Even though everything has a shade of gray. Yes or No are rarely good answers. Then there is: "Candidate A thinks nuclear war is a good thing while candidate B says peace is better: Are you: More likely to vote for candidate A Somewhat more likely to vote for candidate A Somewhat less likely to vot