Please re word the poll to be more specific.  "Best" is a relative term.  What exactly are you looking to know.

This looks like a reel poll.  Am I missing something or is there another place for rods?

Wouldn't that be a pole poll?  

UMMMM me thinks you got sumpin dere cart.

I don't think I can vote. I own at least one of each of the top four listed, and I don't have any issues with or enough long term experience with them to offer any relevant opinion.

Please reword poll (going twice)

I don't think this is a real poll, a reel poll or a pole poll.  It's a very poor poll, so I refuse to pour over the results of this poll.

The Shimano posse isn't done fishing yet, that's why Shimano isn't winning at this moment.

This "poll" is taken about every three or four weeks, but in this case, last week! I think a lot of people don't continue to respond because they are kinda bored with it. Whatever the results are this time, the "general bias" has been a little higher than 2:1 (Shimano vs. the rest of the combined field).