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Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Politics Get Ready to Move to Austin: English Only Ahead for Now in Channel 4 Survey

Posted by Jim Ridley on Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:04 AM


Yikes. As of 11 a.m., a WSMV-Channel 4 survey has support for the English Only referendum drubbing the opposition by an almost four-to-one margin: 

Are you in favor of the English Only initiative, which would make English the official language of Davidson County?

Percentage of 6,081 Votes
Yes   4755   78%
No    1326   22%

A teaser on the WSMV website says the results will be broadcast at 6 p.m. tonight, and emails are flying on both sides encouraging the troops to rally. It'll be interesting to see how much the results change--or don't--by airtime. (The total went up by 10 votes in just a few minutes.) You can find the survey on the homepage WSMV has created for its English Only coverage.

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I'm no statistician, but does anyone find it weird that the total has gone up more than 130 votes since this was posted, yet the percentages remain exactly the same? I've been checking over the past hour, and I haven't seen even a percentage point of deviation either way from the 78-22 split.

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Posted by Curious on January 14, 2009 at 1:01 PM

Yeah.
Call me crazy, but I believe the results being teased are for an actual, scientific poll done by a research agency, and not the informal, easily corruptible "survey" function on their website.
Remember the polling 4 did during the mayoral race? That's what we're talking about here. Not an internet survey.

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Posted by Joe on January 14, 2009 at 1:02 PM
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