Surveys and word finds
The first CIS barometer after the housing protests places the PSOE as the leading force, twelve points above the PP. The socialists would obtain 34% of the votes, while the People's Party members would get 22.2%. Vox isn't having much of a party, if we are to believe the poll, because it goes from 16.6% to 17.1%, but, above all, it sends gusts of wind down the necks of Feijóo's friends.
I know that polls are cooked up, made up, or if it suits, thrown into a frying pan with a bit of garlic. We all know it. But regardless, the cerebral reward for someone who votes for the winner is not negligible, and that is why reading that a candidate is winning makes you feel like you are one of them. You have bet on a horse and the horse arrives first. You haven't done anything, but you feel the tingling of someone who is on the winning side. At bingo, hitting the winning numbers—by pure chance—makes the regulars shriek with jingling voices. “Bingo! I’ve won!”
The other day something happened to me. I was doing the ARA Amagamots (I always do it). I had found many combinations and one of the key words. I was missing the other one. In the end, I saw that under my correct words it said: “See solutions”. I looked at them and found the other key word. They had just let me know it, but I felt like writing it down. I did it. And as always when there is a key word, colorful streamers appeared on the screen. Well, those streamers, which didn't belong to me, because the word wasn't really a success of mine, fluffed up my brain with pure playful pleasure, as if I had guessed it. It was almost physical. And that is why polls are so important.
