Your Votes Are In …

Sunday, July 19th, 2009 at 6:02 pm

Whether it’s wishful thinking or realistic political analysis, a plurality of the people voting in our latest poll said they believe Sarah Palin will be back on the campaign trail sooner rather than later.

Forty-four percent of those voting said Palin would make a run for the White House next time around, in 2012.  Thirty-Seven percent said she’d run in 2016 or 2020.  Just 19 percent said she would never run for office again.

Our other two questions involved affirmative action.  Here was the first of the two:

“The U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case involving the white New Haven firefighters has raised questions about affirmative action. Is affirmative action — when it is based on race, ethnicity and gender — a good thing for this country?

More than nine out of ten of our voters – 93 percent — said “NO,” affirmative action is not a good thing for America.  Only seven percent said it was a good thing.

The final question asked if you would favor affirmative action programs if they were not based on race, ethnicity or gender, but on a person’s economic standing.

Most of you said “NO” to this question, too.  Seventy-five percent of our voters said they would oppose affirmative action even if its goal was to give more opportunities to less economically advantaged Americans – without regard to race, ethnicity or gender; only 25 percent said they would favor such a plan.

As always, we thank all of you who voted.