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The results of this week’s poll are in. While the serious votes said Kes was a waste of potential by a small margin over a waste of space, the majority of you are perverts who have no opinion other than she is cute:

Kes was a wate of potential 28&
Kes was a waste of space 22%
Dunno. Kes was cute, though 50%

It is good to know so many of you are engaged with the deep philosophical issues with which VOY often deals. Is it safe to assume everyone is treading water until Seven shows up?

The results of last week’s poll are in. A majority feel social values cannot be ignored when choosing a even as economic issues will be at the forefront of the 2012 election.

Social values important 66%
Economics only 34%

Pro-choice, pro gay-marriage Republicans will get no traction in 2012 regardless of economic acumen. Note to Rudy Giuliani--do not bother.

If you have not already surmised, I usually cast a vote these weekly polls, too. I play sporting and vote only once, and I also avoid polls in which the outcomes matter like the Star Trek: Voyager v. Babylon 5 review poll which made me question American cultural rot and democracy as we know it, but I do vote in the political polls. Except for this week. While I came up with the question regarding the importance of social issues in choosing a 2012 nominee, I have not come up with a good answer.

In my young idealistic days, I thought social issues mattered because I thought political leaders ought to set the cultural tone. I am not that dumb anymore, nor have I been for a long time. These days I recognize politicians are a reflection of the culture that put them into power, not the other way around. I not only have no faith in a politician to guide our country’s moral direction, I am not so sure he should. I am now a bottom up, not top down believer in where true change comes.

So what is the value of gauging a candidate’s position on social issues? It is a litmus test more than anything else. I want to know a candidate’s position on abortion even though I know abortion will be the law off the land for the duration. But I want to know because the rationale behind his belief speaks volumes. I think Bush 43’s sincere Christian beliefs convinced him to be pro-life. I think his father switched from pro-choice to pro-life in order to score points with southern and heartland conservatives wary of his New England blue blood. Barack Obama’s attitude that a baby is a burden speaks volumes about his character. You can tell what these mean and women are all about when you honestly look at why they believe as they do.

This time around, I am very much in the Anybody But Obama school of thought. I am even more adamant about it now than with John McCain in 2008. Back then, Sarah Palin allowed me some warm fuzzies in casting my ballot. The GOP has the best chance of winning the White House they have ever had in my 18 years of seriously following presidential elections. That is, assuming they do not blow like in 1996 when they handed the nomination to a candidate solely because it was ’his turn.” If they do not field a social conservative with fiscal responsibility, it will be time for true conservatives to jump ship for a third party.

This week’s poll is back to the less serious. I still want to know how many VOY fans there are out there. You guys and gals are awfully quiet compared to the detractors even though, according to poll results, there are a lot of you. So we are only the dedicated fans will care to answer. Was the character kes a waste of space or waste of potential?

A poll is up for this week after a hiatus of a couple weeks in which I came up empty on ideas. Mitt Romney gave me one this week, thereby proving he is good for something than state run healthcare in RINO clothing.

Romney refused to sign a pro-life pledge, although he claims to now be pro-life. I do not believe him. If a pro-life republican was running for Massachusetts governor against a pro-choice parakeet, the bird would win in a landslide because it had successfully passed the litmus test for enlightenment. In its defense, the bird would probably still make a better president than Barack Obama.

Romney is Bnking on the economy being such a big issue in the 2012 election that social issues will be all but irrelevant. Rudy Giuliani is thinking the same thing. Every candidate who is thinking they can either pay lip service to social conservatism or ignore it all together is planning to paint social conservative primary opponents as crazy.

Will it work? The Tea Party has shown willingness to compromise on social issues because the economy is plummeting into the abyss, but they have not done so in all cases. There is still much value placed on social conservatism as a mark of character. So here is the question--do conservative social values matter in the 2012 election?

Poll results are in regarding favorite television reviews from the EYE:

TOS 2%
TNG 335
DS9 23%
The Wild Wild West 9%
The X Files 30%

A few surprises there. While I am confident the results are tainted by multiple votes from single users through more than one device, I am still surprised TNG came out on top. The age group of my readers must skew towards that being your favorite Star Trek series.

So little love for TOS is weird, but I did ask for which reviews were your favorite. Many have said I was too harsh on the show. One really should not make hamburgers out of sacred cows, then ask how you like them. What can I say, folks? I am not really a Star Trek fan.

The X-Files came in second. This makes me happy. Many of you have taste!

Not much to say about the rest. I figured DS9 would have middle of the road results and hardly anyone was interested in The Wild Wild West. Reviewing those series was mostly a personal indulgence in the first place.

What's up with the polls all of a sudden? You're gonna be sick of them once the GOP primary really starts to pick up.

I am sick of politics in general now. Forget about when the primaries crank up. The weekly poll is one of the few political aspects of the Eye that is left, and half of them so far have had nothing to do with politics. In all likelihood, most of them will not.

I am an accommodating soul, however. If the polls are unpopular, out they go. So far, I have had a decent level of participation, so I assume most visitors enjoy them. Or are at least ambivalent. You are the first person to express anything negative about them.

If the weekly poll becomes unpopular, out it goes. I would be surprised to find out anyone has strong emotions about it one way or the other.

This week's poll has closed. In spite of a surge in her favor over the last couple days, Michele Bachmann ultimately got trounced by Sarah Palin as your favorite potential 2012 GOP nominee:

Michele Bachmann 40%
Sarah Palin 60%

Considering palin's bus tour and new documentary set to premiere in Iowa, it is safe to say she is running in spite of insider commentary to the contrary. Bachmann is having a tough time gaining any traction to the point, if she is wise, will drop the whole idea of a 2012 bid. she may be in better shape to run later, but I do not believe it is her turn right now.

This week's poll goes back to the television reviews. The X-Files reviews end later this week. [Pause> for cheers] Which series has had the most interesting reviews so far?

Last week’s poll was a real horse race up until a Saturday surge declared Star Wars the favorite among readers of the eye over Star Trek, but just narrowly. Star Wars earned forty-four votes to Star Trek’s forty:

Star Trek 48%
Star Wars 52%

Maybe I should make more Star Wars references, no?

We are going to go back to the 2012 presidential race for this week’s poll. Dick Morris, whose record of predicting such things is not that great, believes Michele Bachmann will declare her candidacy for the GOP nomination in an effort to steal Sarah Palin’s thunder among social conservatives. Whom do you prefer if it came right down to it?

No apocalypse choice this time around. Serious answers only.

Last week’s poll results are in. The vast majority of you would rather see the world die in flames than elect Donald Trump president. Surprisingly, a sizable number of respondents are Barack Obama supporters:

Barack Obama 29%
Donald Trump 10%
Apocalypse 61%

I find this interesting. Are there a lot of progressives coming to the Eye for the celebrity photos and science fiction who ignore my political posts, but voted anyway? Or am I palatable enough for some progressives to read it all? Considering the reactions I have gotten from--shall we say--duller minds of the left, I find the latter difficult to believe.

The number of Star trek related questions in my Formspring box lately has me curious how many of you are out there versus those who, like me, actually prefer Star Wars. Have it, folks.

The people have spoken. In spite of my pleas to the contrary, you sadists/masochists have overwhelmingly chosen Star Trek: Voyager as the next series you want to see reviewed:

Voyager 59%
Babylon 5 41%

What is wrong with you people? Voyager sucks! I mean, it does not come with a rope and instructions on how to tie a noose like the Enterprise DVD, but still. Six months of Janeway’s psychotic behavior? Six months of awful writing from Brannon Braga, rick Berman, Kenneth Biller, and Lisa Klink? Worse yet, six months of Neelix! Verily, thou hast lost they collective minds.

What is done is done. The X-Files reviews will be finished in the first week of June. Then I shall start VOY. In all honesty, if you generally like VOY, you are going to be very disappointed. It is a bad show in general, kept on the air solely because the fledgling UPN had nothing with which to replace it. I will get into the specifics as they present themselves, but if you are anticipating reviews similar to TOS, TNG, and DS9, adjust expectations.

Oh, and this:From the bottom of my heart.

This week’s poll is up. It is just for fun this time. Vote for what you think would be the best result in 2012 from the choices given.