I’m trying to remember. Did we really put Elvis on a U.S. postage stamp? I seem to remember we did.

If so, shouldn’t we put Michael Jackson on one, too? We should probably try and persuade The Wall Street Journal to poll Americans and find out how many of us want that.

We are so fond of polls. We run them to learn how many of us are unlearned about our Constitution, literature, science and math, and about our total education system failure. But we middle class, populist-minded Americans never get to decide what the major media should poll America about.

So, as you might have guessed, I have some ideas about that. Guns first.

In June, a white supremacist and Holocaust denier killed a guard at the U.S. Holocaust Museum in D.C., another gun nut killed three policemen in April. He was afraid President Obama was “gonna take mah guns.” Also in April another white supremacist killed two sheriff’s deputies in Florida. Then there was the gun nut who shot the Wichita abortion doctor.

So poll America on it. Since the National Rifle Association makes large contributions (in one way or another) to many members of Congress, let’s poll the American people and see if they believe anyone — Congressmen, aides, spectators, whoever — should be allowed to carry a concealed weapon to any and all congressional assemblies, as columnist Gene Lyons recently suggested.

I mean, after all, if the NRA and congressmen think guns should be not only allowed but encouraged on college campuses and American homes, why not in the halls of Congress?

And let’s get the New York Times to run a poll to ascertain how many Americans, percentage-wise, think we should have the same kind of health coverage Congress has.

Let’s run a poll to see how many Americans would favor political contributions on any level, in any shape, form or fashion, from either individuals or corporations, limited to $500.

Then let’s run a poll to learn how many Americans believe such a limit would force senators or house members to represent the American people, instead of corporations or big business.

Another poll could show what Americans believe about politicians who are against government. See, Ronald Reagan was one of those and Americans adored him. But the big question remains; why should anyone who is against government want to run one? It would appear such a person would want to ruin it . . . not run it.

Why don’t some of ya’ll ask Ted Poe?

Some other things we could poll about:

Was/is the war in Iraq really about “Iraqi Freedom” or the oil business?

How many Democrats would love for the Republican presidential and veep nominees to be Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh?

How many Americans believe Geedubya Bush and Dick Cheney trod all over our Constitution with muddy feet?

How many believe the three G’s — God, guns and gays — should be the main focus of elections, as Republicans seem to believe?

Call a Congressman, vote, do something y’all.

Neal Morgan of Nederland is a retired educator.