>The two overlap, but there are fundamental differences, beginning with
>the fact that the kind of "poll" I am speaking of _cannot be done over
>the phone_ but must be done personally, but the organizer, in direct &
>protracted conversation.
Ok, I'll agree with this. But that's a completely different ball of wax from a "poll," which is, or should be, a snapshot of opinion as it exists, apart from efforts to influence it.
Doug