I CAME across a newspaper article where the writer had an unusual take on border poll opinion surveys. According to the article, this kind of thing just deepened division. If the opinion poll figures favoured my view it’d give heart to me and people with similar thinking. But if the opinion poll showed my side was on the slide, it’d deepen division, encourage the digging in of heels, and cause uneasiness or worse. What was needed, the writer said, were opinion polls which encouraged collaboration and reconciliation.
