and..it's called cognitive bias. We all have it and people have to be aware enough to discount data that matches pre-conceved beliefs.
Opinion polls (do you like or who would you vote for) track sentiment but aren't great predictors of elections.
Your theory that those polls are used to manipulate the vote is bunk.
No one should need a poll to tell them that Bernie's bill to force 100 million people from a healthcare plan they like into Medicare without a plan for how to pay for it is political suicide. I have no idea why your kind think that is a winning policy at the polls. Except maybe you are crazy.
Pareidolia is a type of apophenia, which is a more generalized term for seeing patterns in random data. Some common examples are seeing a likeness of Jesus in the clouds or an image of a man on the surface of the moon.
see you in the voting booth.