Public opinion polls reflection

While doing my public opinion polls I had a difficult time finding adults who wanted to participate. Many refused to answer majority of the questions, so it wasn’t helpful at all. I learned that people are very protective on their views of politics. After I told them the polls would be anonymous and they were no obligated to answer any questions they weren’t comfortable answering, they still refused to participate. I was very surprised at how many people I interviewed were democrats. I was also shocked to find out how many democrats didn’t know what Obama care was because they seemed to be so protective of the Democratic Party.  Another thing that shocked me was how, many people thought gay marriage would not be legal, I would think that people would say it would be legal because it’s very common. I would be surprised if it did not become legal within the next presidential term. Something that really bothered me was how people said race/ethnicity will be an issue in this year’s presidential election, why would it be an issue if we just had an African American president? I thought by now we would be over the race/ethnicity issue, we have other things to worry about. Small things like race/ethnicity hold us back from progressing. I really liked doing the public opinion polls because I liked hearing what other people have to say on the issues of America and their view on politics.