An elected official must walk a fine line with polls and the public's "wishes".
While he/she should listen, they should not be as a flag in the wind.
By analogy, when you hire a surgeon, you tell them what you want, but you do not try to run the operation, because part of what you are paying for is the surgeon's expertise in doing the "right thing".
This is the same for politicians.
We (try) to pick the best ones to run the country and then we put the job in their hands.
If we don't like the job they did we can "fire" them at the next election.
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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." – C. S. Lewis
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