Thursday, April 12, 2018

A Patch of Sun

The  question of the week in the paper for this edition was "Did you vote in the Spring Election?"  As I said before, for our municipality it was around 30% turnout.  The news reported that statewide turnout was also 30%.  The response to the paper's question was 70% said they had voted in the recent election.  As w/ most raw numbers that could mean a couple of things.  For instance, do people like to say they are civic minded (even in an anonymous poll) when they aren't?  -or-  Do people that like to take the paper's poll also tend to vote in elections?  However that's not the most interesting part of the paper's question.  "Undecided" garnered 3% of responses  even though the question was asked after the election had already occurred.

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