Exact quote from Friday's edition of our local newspaper:

"Among 223 responses, the deer won 196-27."

"'Leave the deer alone', a wide majority of respondents to a highly unofficial, terribly unscientific poll" have said.

They went on to use the rest of a full page to print some of the comments they received.

Not surprised. At all. This may come as a surprise to all but one of the City Council members, but there was a reason why our outfit wasn't taking drastic measures to control deer in town.

Seems we know their constituents better than they do.