Polls

I have been looking at several polling sites. I occurred to me that there is no regulation or oversight of these polling sites.

So, a thought came to me, as I saw a preponderance of positive data about Red States and a preponderance of negative data about Blue States on one site: In a media-driven, poll-diven, divided government, wouldn't it be likely that corrupting interests would manage to control and manipulate polls? Who would know? The polling sites I have visited show no signs of transparency in terms of their corporate links, institutional links or their data. Yet, our politicians are driven by these statisticians' pronouncements about the voter's psyche.

Is it really likely, for example, that the majority of a population, plagued by a major financial collapse and its insecurities, really doesn't want improved health care coverage? or sticter climate remediation policies? I wonder, but whose numbers can I trust in a society which has been corrupted by international corporate manipulation?