The home page of any web site is "valuable territory" ... after all, it's the "first impression" made on any visitor to the site.  Having a poll on the home page might be useful at times, but it also takes up valueable and limited home page space. Thus, the creation of a Joomla! "cubby hole" just for Polls!  This page to introduce that ...

The Polls to the right will change from time to time ... depending upon need.