Dumb question of the day

Seriously, I saw this poll question on the website of a California newspaper:

"Is the economic downturn responsible for Tehama County's double-digit unemployment rate?"

Maybe the next poll question they'll have will be, "Is rain responsible for the fact that it's raining?"

And newspapers wonder why they can't stay in business even with a website? Of course they're going out of business, if they ask dumb questions like that.

Or maybe this is like during the so-called economic "boom" of several years ago when everyone was out of work but denied there was a recession.