Australia is obsessed with opinion polls. Why do we take them so seriously?

The only thing more dispiriting than opinion polls may be writing about how dispiriting, even corrupting, they are to our politics, but let’s give it a go. Monday morning was a heart-sinking moment. Two front pages of daily newspapers, two opinion polls, multiple earnest columns interpreting what these single surveys of less than 2,000 people might mean. CONT.

Gay Alcorn, Guardian