in reply to OT: MySQL - rows or tables

You'll need more than a single table - at least two if you don't count the user table (I assume that it already exists)
+---------+ | user | +---------+ | user_id | +---------+ | | /|\ +-----------+ | poll | +-----------+ | poll_id | | user_id | | header | | question | +-----------+ | | /|\ +-------------+ | option | +-------------+ | option_id | | poll_id | | option | | votes | +-------------+