Polls are for Dogs

Just how much influence do polls hold over people? It has become pretty obvious that polls for the average Canadian with no particular interest in how his Country is run have a negative influence on how that person will vote, if that type of person will vote at all. The bandwagon effect is substantial for those that like to feel good about supporting a winner. For those undecided votes there runs the risk that rather than make an informed choice at the polling booth polls troll for the politically ignorant among us, and in the long run are not helpful but counter productive. Polls are usually right but as you have seen in the last election can be sorely wrong, which begs the question do people tell poll watchers the truth, or purposefully mislead them for reasons of political design? This constant obsession with poll results have become more distracting than the issues themselves, leading one to wonder what would really be the result of a general election if no polling results were allowed but the final poll, the only one that really counts?