America, so it seems, is under siege. Armies of men and women, equipped with clipboards and pencils, sweep across the land, prying and probing into people's minds. The results are served up in hundreds of public opinion surveys for newspapers, TV networks, corporate managers, cabinet officers, and White House staffers.
Consider just a few of the questions that have been put to people in recent months:
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Objects? George Gallup recently asked. (Fifty-seven...