Britain delivers damning verdict on Blair's 10 years

So says The Observer newspaper this Easter Sunday morning. And how do they know how the entire British public feels about Blair's reign? Because they ran an exhaustive nationwide poll... of 2,034 people.

Hmm, right. 2,034? I see. In July 2006 the population of the United Kingdom was 60,609,153. So that means that the poll canvassed approximately 0.0034% of the nation

From the opinions of 0.0034% of the nation one can extrapolate the result across the entire nation and conclude that "Britain delivers damning verdict on Blair's 10 years"? Am I the only one who thinks that such a leap is totally absurd and and nothing more than an exercise in sensationalising an insignificant poll result into big, important news?

And this is what passes for broadsheet journalism in this country.