"I got 5K emails in favor of a magazine ban" your member of Congress can say "I got 10K emails against a ban."
Exactly! It doesn't matter if they already know what the right thing to do is, our calls, letters, and emails give our guys ammo against the other side. Something the other side cannot ignore, or ignore only at their peril.
They always claim that what they are doing is what the people want. Having numbers of "the people" expressing their views against them is important.
We just changed the make up of Congress this last election, because of so many of the Congressmen NOT following the will of the people. The die hards, entrenched in districts where they cannot be put at risk won't change their minds. But the rest of them, know that we can, and will replace them, if need be. We have proven we can, and will do it. We did it in 94, and we did it in 2010. Now this bunch knows we will, and therefore, there's just a chance they will act as we desire. But without proof of our intentions, they are handicapped. Polls are BS. Polls can be slanted in any direction desired. And asking 1,000 people loaded questions, then believing that is what the other 300 some
million of us want? Get real. OF course, politics today has little to do with real, until you get to the results of the laws. And then, its all too real! The only poll that really matters is held in November every two years.
Even though our representatives may know the right thing to do, our input is important. Because they also know that for every one of us who takes the time to write, or bothers to call, or send email, there are dozens, if not hundreds who feel the same way, but don't write in to tell them.