Agreed. It would take an independent, objective pollster to get accurate results.
I don't think lack of objective pollsters is the problem.
The two polls, posted by someone else for 4e, and by me afterwards for 3e, have identical answers.
I am a 3e fan, but I didn't write the original answers and I don't see anything biased or unfair about them (in either poll). I asked the 3e question to see if the answers would come out differently.
What I was EXPECTING to see is that a lot of people like both editions, so love + like + mixed bag would likely add up to 65% or more in both, which would be a sort of "meh, edition wars don't matter" result. I'm not really sure what the real answers were before it got hacked . . . some other folks were discussing that early in the thread.
BTW though, since I didn't notice it myself until I'd already ranted here about how the polls aren't so bad and shouldn't be that far off (err, sorry!), the 3e poll was totally hacked, with a sudden 500 new "hate" responses after it had been running for days with a more believable set of answers. I haven't checked if the 4e poll was also vandalized.
So, the big problem NOW with these polls is hacking, which overwhelms the real responses from real people. I won't speculate on why the person who hacked it did it, since their opinion really doesn't matter in the scheme of things. Could be trying to "prove" polls are bad by making it so, could be Edition War childishness, or it could be just hacking because they can . . .