Politicians have been calling our house multiple times daily for the past month (of course, lying about the return phone number, as if this would somehow indicate that the person who is being promoted could be a responsible congressman who makes himself accessible to his constituents). I’m tired of this and at this point I really hate politicians as a group (something about power requires that one leaves one’s sense of decency at the door), so I decided to inject some noise into their survey. Not just random noise, though – noise that was planned to be as inconsistent as possible, thus having the maximum impact upon their model’s variance.

Thus we had “do you consider yourself democratic or republican?” (I don’t consider them opposites, myself) questions which were responded to as “Republican”, only to have questions such as “if you had to vote now, which party would you vote for?” as “democrat!”

I like screwing with politicans’ campaigns, since they invariably begin with interminable lying to the constituents and usually end in vicious mudslinging. One of these days, I’d really love someone who I could respect in power.