Polls, Poles, or Pols?

You know I don't get really angry about many things but I am incensed by something today that, I guess is just a part of who we are as a country. Now, I am sure that most of you are aware of the science of polling. In a nut shell, that if you can sample a small "cross-section" of people from various parts of the country (sometimes not even that) you can get a good idea of the opinion of the country regarding various issues and/or the approval rating of a president for example. I read this article today from Drudge with a headline reading "Bush Poll Ratings Before Speech Fall To Nixon Level". It goes on to site two or three different polls and ends with the CBS Evening News Poll which is decidedly lower than the rest. If you read on they then tell you that in order to arrive at these numbers they "surveyed 1,168 adults nationwide by telephone from Jan. 18 to 21", out of approx. 300,394,897 people living in America. Now I was never a math wiz in High School but if my calculations are correct that is something right around .0004% of the population. Four Ten Thousands of one percent. Boy those polls sure have got the pulse of the nation eh! So my message to you today America is don't believe the hype and support your president and your troops on the eve of the State Of The Union Address. He is not perfect but he sure is better than any alternative out there and he loves this nation!