Charles Blow's column in today's NYT, which is well worth reading, had a discouraging sidebar, showing some results from a Suffolk University/USA TODAY poll of unlikely voters. Let us weep for our country, together.
First question of interest:
If you were registered to vote and the General Election for United States President were held today and the candidates were Democrat Barack Obama, Republican Mitt Romney, or a third party candidate, for whom would you vote or towards whom would you LEAN at this time?
Answers from those who are not registered to vote:
| Obama | 43% |
| Romney | 14% |
| Third party | 23% |
| Undecided/Refused to answer | 19% |
Answers from those who are registered, but say they are unlikely to vote:
| Obama | 43% |
| Romney | 20% |
| Third party | 18% |
| Undecided/Refused to answer | 18% |
Next question of interest:
Is your opinion of [name] generally favorable or generally unfavorable?
| Obama | Romney | |
| Favorable | 55% | 25% |
| Unfavorable | 37% | 51% |
| Undecided/Never heard of | 8% | 25% |
Oh, one last thing:
Can you tell me the name of the Vice President of the United States?
| "Joe Biden" | 39% |
| "Dick Cheney" | 1% |
| Don't know/Refused to answer | 60% |
To end on a positive note: I think we should be encouraged that none of them said "Sarah Palin."
2 comments:
Assuming then you have already seen this, & certainly where it links. Other related & serious punditry.
I had seen the middle one, and thanks for the other two. Will look at more closely when I have consumed enough controlled substances to think there's some reason to optimistic that all is not lost.
Meanwhile, are you a supporter of NPV?
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