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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nisarg" data-source="post: 1783422" data-attributes="member: 19893">No, its basic theory of poll design.  Anyone who works at a polling firm would tell you the same thing.. the question asked in this poll was analogous to asking "would you vote for the Blue party if they had good politicians in it?"When the pollee thinks of "good politicians" he'll think of his definition of a good political figure, and memories of particular politicians he admired will come to mind.   In other words, its a very leading question, and one that often betrays fundamental mistrust in a party.To give a real world example (and I hope this doesn't get considered political discussion): before Kerry was picked for pres. candidate, there were a number of polls made, pitting each of the 9 or so Dem candidates against Bush in popularity.  They all failed against him in those polls, he beat them all. But when an "unnamed democrat" ran against Bush, Bush lost bad.  Why was that? The polling firms concluded from this information that there was a serious current of dissent against the Bush presidency, but at the same time a serious distrust of the democratic candidates.  People voted against bush vs. the "unnamed democrat" because they imagined that "unnamed democrat" in their mind to be John F. Kennedy or Bill Clinton or who ever their favourite democratic president was.So, bringing it back to the question of our poll in this thread, it may be true that you're a highly atypical human being who wasn't thinking of a particularly great DM when you answered the supposedly "middle" answer to the question. But the average person who answered that question was very much thinking that they'd play 2nd edition if it had a really good DM (and were thinking of a particular DM they liked while doing it), who would overcome their DISLIKE of 2e. Otherwise, they'd have answered the with the third "I'd love to" answer... that's the answer chosen by the minority 20% who liked 2e in and of itself, and did not require some kind of "push polling" to get them to vote favourably.Nisarg</blockquote>

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