You'd just need a moderator and TV network with enough balls to shut it down if he steps out of line. So, short answer, you're right. It would never work.
Are these polls the kind that randomly call people from an unknown phone number in the middle of the day and expect anyone but idiots to pick up? Because, if so, I'd expect the results to be a bit slanted.
He sure rolled over and took it from his Daddy, one last time. What a pathetic ghoul.