Polls Apart
The News & Observer says its poll with WRAL shows that voters are “leaning against” the Wake school bond issue. It looks more like a tsunami to me.
Only 35 percent of the voters said they’ll vote for the bond issue. The result could be nearly 2-to-1 against.
School bond supporters sound like George Bush and Karl Rove. They say their polls show the bonds with a chance of winning.
In truth, I hear that internal polls show the bonds with only 45 percent support. Bond supporters say that result gives them hope. I don’t know if that’s spin or spitting in the wind.
As a political junkie, I’ll be interested in whose poll turns out right.
But – as a bond supporter – I don’t have any hope.
Once this tidal wave recedes, the schools and their Wake County friends need to take a hard look at how this happened.
Not at the campaign. That was a lost cause from the beginning.
But at how the schools lost public confidence so badly. And at what they’re going to do to rebuild it.
Polls Apart
The News & Observer says its poll with WRAL shows that voters are “leaning against” the Wake school bond issue. It looks more like a tsunami to me.
Only 35 percent of the voters said they’ll vote for the bond issue. The result could be nearly 2-to-1 against.
School bond supporters sound like George Bush and Karl Rove. They say their polls show the bonds with a chance of winning.
In truth, I hear that internal polls show the bonds with only 45 percent support. Bond supporters say that result gives them hope. I don’t know if that’s spin or spitting in the wind.
As a political junkie, I’ll be interested in whose poll turns out right.
But – as a bond supporter – I don’t have any hope.
Once this tidal wave recedes, the schools and their Wake County friends need to take a hard look at how this happened.
Not at the campaign. That was a lost cause from the beginning.
But at how the schools lost public confidence so badly. And at what they’re going to do to rebuild it.