I wish newspapers would just publish poll results the way they publish sports scores. It bugs me to have to wade through a bunch of arbitrarily-chosen opinions in an article (login) just to get six or eight numbers. Maybe it’s in the printed version. I didn’t see it on Zogby’s website either. So, as best as I could decipher, here’s an incomplete picture of how the first Republican-led Georgia Legislature since Reconstruction and some of their legislation fared in the AJC/Zogby poll.
SMOKING BAN
64% for
36% against/otherSHIELDING UNIVERSITY DONORS
38% for
54% against
4% otherVOTER ID BILL
80% for
20% against/otherABORTION WAITING PERIOD
65% for
35% against/otherRATE THE LEGISLATURE’S PERFORMANCE
5% excellent
30% good
34% fair
31% other
See, it didn’t take 816 words to get that information across. I reckon writing an article that long around such a scant morsel of information is a good way to make it look like you’re working when you really aren’t. Oops, I guess that’s what we do on blogs too. I know this almost contradicts what I wrote last night. Piss off.
I totally agree. I had to read the damn article twice before i even saw the 80% in favor of coter IDs paragraph. Apparently, in tomorrow’s AJC there is going to be a new poll that they commissioned. It is supposed to have some info on the Governor’s Race.