Polls are the most amazing things. They can say pretty much anything you want them to, no matter what questions are asked.

Now that I've gotten that cynical outburst out of my system, it would be nice to see what sort of questions are being asked. I know something similar to this (although more of a village census than a poll) was tried in Vietnam in the latter CORDS era, and it was supposed to have worked fairly well. Of course, it's hard to say now just how well it DID work.

If nothing else this might give people an insight into issues that matter to the locals. If they act on that insight is, of course, a different critter.