Fascist? The East Bay is about the least fascist environment there is next to Santa Cruz and Madison, WI.
Marc Sapir is the executive director of Retro Poll.
Sapir and his firm are as these threads went into is a unreliable biased source. His firm puts out a crappy product. Like those stupid surveys the DNC and RNC send outt in their direct mail, "Do you believe the Democrats/Republicans eat babies for breakfast?" http://search.lbo-talk.org/search/swish.cgi?query=Marc+Sapir&submit=Search%21&metaname=swishdefault&sort=unixdate
http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2004/2004-May/010793.html
[lbo-talk] Sapir
http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2004/2004-May/010806.html
> [Marc Sapir, director of RetroPoll, sent this reaction to my
> critiques of his latest. I'll let this float out into the universe
> before responding.]
> 90% of the public
> doesn't know anything about all that, so we inform them. That's part of
> our approach to reality. You don't like it, but we do.
Hm, this is a pretty obnoxious tirade. Lots of petty personal insults, an endless stream of red herrings, thin-skinned quotes about academics who may or may not be using his website, and no attempt to deal with the issues. Polls are about what people are really thinking, as opposed to what anyone else would like them to think. If you start the whole education/training thing, you're doing agitprop -- a fine thing in itself, but not a genuine poll.