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Yeah, I hear critical thinking shows an alarming lack of understanding. Polls are, of course, useful but they open to scrutiny, and this is the point you seem to struggle with. That scrutiny is part and parcel of data handling. For the poll you have chosen to inform your opinion the sample size...

If you want to take opinion polls as gospel that's your funeral (I wonder what your stance would be if the OP went against your own personal view). I don't think my opinion is representative. I approached the subject with caution, unlike you who went straight in with a sweeping statement based...

Well for a start you assume that the opinions of 1600 people represent 64 million. That's 0.002% of the population. That math alone should make you question the polls validity and certainly make you think twice about making such sweeping statements (especially if that poll is what you're going...

You realise opinion polls have fundamental flaws right?

You can throw all the Wikipedia articles around you like but 1600 people still don't represent the opinion of a nation.

Not exactly very representative of the population when just over 1500 people voted on it...

Really? Source? I'd imagine the exact opposite is probably true...