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Survey Leaves Too Many Unaccounted For

Posted by Janet Hart November 18, 2007 01:26 PM

Like fellow bloggers, I am concerned about a poll that finds more than 25 percent of its pollsters undecided. What about the 75 percent of the remaining responses being so widely divided? People don't seem to know the candidates well enough yet. What some of those numbers may be revealing is that the candidates have been busy telling us what they don't respect about one another, and perhaps they could spend a little more time convincing us of their own strengths and who they really are. Is it too late to clear up the confusion?

Have we reached a point in politics when it is too risky to answer questions directly and be straightforward? I know the answer is yes, and it has been for a long time, but I pose the question just to be sure that we take the matter into account when pondering which candidate to support.

The poll question, "Who would you support today?" has Romney and Clinton very close. When reading most press, Clinton can only be beaten by Giuliani. Aren't the New Hampshire voters always right?

About Primary voices The Boston Globe asked Democrats, Republicans and independents in three communities to blog for us as they decide who will get their vote in New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation presidential primary. The Democrats are from Henniker, the Republicans from Kingston and the independents are from Nashua.
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