I used to trust, for the most part, the science behind the polls and the sampling and statistics and all that. That was back when everyone had a land-line and the samples were somewhat close to representative of the population as a whole. These days I can’t imagine how I’d get a valid representative sample. I’m pretty ignorant on the subject, so maybe there is in fact a way to get a valid sample. At this point in my living and learning, I don’t think there is.