If the voting age were 11, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie might be polling higher than 3% nationally in the presidential race.
"If you do that correctly you can make it more secure and you can make things much more efficient and faster," says Lambert. "Because rather than polling, let's say 6,000 nodes, you might be polling eight nodes.
They'll also be able to drill down into location-based data, which will provide parties with the flexibility to address specific local issues, and strengthen the campaign in areas where they might not be polling strongly enough.
Every one of those MPs will be feeling uneasy, wondering whether this might be a poll tax moment and a threat to their chances in 2020.
Agreed, it might be nebulous: polls suggest the public don't get it and many Conservative candidates confessed themselves equally at a loss when it suddenly landed on them from on high at the start of the general election campaign.
Charles Brickous, a retired chemist from Crown Heights, Brooklyn, threw that question out to a classroom filled with an unusual assortment of students -- retirees, political party activists and random other city residents -- who had gathered in a musty Brooklyn back office for what might be called Poll Worker Special Ed.
You might be thinking, polls show that people like the idea of cutting the deficit so what's the problem?
They got to talking about ways that the Internet might be used to poll properly, short of waiting the years it would take for the technology to trickle down.
It might be amusing to poll audiences exiting the Goodman Theater here, where a spectacularly lurid production of Williams's drama, directed by the Catalan provocateur Calixto Bieito, runs through Sunday, to see how many feel a need to reach for the thermometer.
Do you think it might be interesting to poll those around you to see whether or not they have feminist teeth brushing patterns?
