On-Line Polls Are Out Of Line.
Politicians seem to live and die by opinion polls.
So President Clinton must not have been amused when a Nov. 18 New York Post on-line poll of the 25 most evil people of the century ranked him second only to Adolf Hitler. His wife Hillary, running for a Senate seat in New York, must have been equally displeased by her sixth place finishing. An even better question is whether the Post should have mentioned the results of such a dubious poll in the first place. The advantages to conducting polls on-line are obvious. A telephone poll may take several days and cost thousands of dollars, but an on-line poll can be ready overnight and for a fraction of that cost.