Opinion polls can be very misleading because they tell us how people feel at any given moment. Today, people may believe that President Obama is doing a terrible job and that he shouldn't be re-elected because the European debt crisis is on the front burner, and he's viewed as ineffectual. Tomorrow, we may have a major national security event, either real or manufactured, and he could be seen as a great leader who deserves four more years.　 It pays to take polling data with a grain of salt. For instance, recent polls reveal that only 43% of us agree with the views of Occupy Wall Street -- whatever they are. A few days ago, another poll showed that 56% of Americans don't have an opinion about OWS, pro or con, and that 59% of us don't know enough about OWS to form an opinion.　Even so, I suspect that typical Americans will form a negative opinion about OWS as protesters are forced to depart their shanties and in their wake they leave mountains of trash.　 In Los Angeles, they...(Read Full Post)