Do you think news organizations actually care about your responses to polls?

We totally mock you.

They word questions in such a way as to get the answers that they want
in order to sway the public in a direction that they want. They are
also very good at using numbers to scare people. I.E. Most fatal car
crashes happen within 5 miles of a persons home. Now unless people
think for themselves, you have just scared them to death. Duh, most
people drive the majority of the time within 5 miles of their homes.
When taking my statistics class in college, the professor said on the
first day of class, "Believe what you want, and you can make the
statics that will back up your belief."

Yeah last fall I would always take the polls when they called and give weird answers just to mess with the pollster.

no they don't know the meaning of the word all they see are dollar signs

During the last election cycle I was called a few times (by ABC news, I think). Some of the questions were worded in such an odd way that the questions forced a certain answer. The scary thing is that some candidates seem to really care about poll answers.

They think the masses are just sheep, without indipendant thought outside what they tell us.

Classic.