Straw poll The first polls were elections held by counting heads, for pol, polle in Middle English simply meant “head.” One still goes to the polls to cast ballots in elections. The first so-called “straw” or unofficial polls were held in the United States in 1824. They consisted chiefly of man-in-the-street interviews or door-to-door canvassing by newspaper reporters. Since the mid-1930s, with debacle of the Literary Digest mail poll, which predicted a victory for Landon over Roosevelt, techniques have been greatly improved. Now, such polls as the Gallup, Harris and Roper surveys are used not only to gauge probable election results but also to test public reaction to new products and the like.

Thanks for that one Jim. I've been mistakenly calling it the Peter Principle. I looked it up and realized that the Peter Principle states that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their level of incompetence. An employee who is successful in one job will be promoted to a job with a different or higher set of skills that they are not able to master.

I always thought it was related to music: [Chuck] Brown didn’t just invent go-go, says Johnson, he reinvented what dance bands do. “It’s non-stop. We go from one song to the next to the next – there’s no break,” he says. That’s where the name go-go derives – it’s music with a beat that just goes and goes. Percussive solos are its signature – conga drums, cowbells, timbales, anything with a beat. These transitions between songs turn into crescendos that keep the dance floor buzzing. “That was Brown’s genius,” says Johnson. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/14/washington-dc-go-go-music-hits-back-gentrification-sould-of-a-city

Same idea but wiki says the practice came from Spain in the early 16th century Red tape