And you know this for a fact? You honestly don’t believe that if someone pays for a poll, they don’t tell the poster what they want to measure?
Yike. Thanks at least for proving that on the Internet, someone will argue about anything. Have a nice day.
Sure they can tell them what they want to measure. But they cannot tell them HOW to measure it.
Would an architect design a building that he knows will fall down just because that is the way the promoter wants it designed? Heck no.
The party purchasing a poll is expected to provide the subjects they want to measure, the sampling parameters and will have approval over the phraseology of the questions.
The polling party is unlikely to "cook the books", but they will fulfill their customers' specifications.