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Voting issue has to be personal

Tuesday, August 12, 2008 Our two-week survey of readers regarding Alcoa re-licensing has created about as much interest after the fact as during it.

Sadly, we received only 50 calls regarding a situation that many prominent leaders are passionate about and consider critical to our future in Stanly County.

And as a result, our polling plan has been attacked as un-scientific as we simply went to the bottom line and asked, yea or nay?

To date both Alcoa and Stanly County have released their own polls, both scientifically planned by professional pollsters who were paid for their study. Not surprisingly, the results showed differing results with the pollsters’ results favoring the side that was paying the bill.

Contrast our Alcoa vote with a basketball poll from February 2007 when we asked our readers to vote for the county’s top male and female basketball players of the year.

Phones at The SNAP rang off the hook as sports fans from all areas of the county showed their passion for their favorites.

In the end, 823 votes were cast with 10 males and seven female players receiving votes.

Once again the numbers tell us one thing, if nothing else: with our busy lives of today for us to take time to cast a vote, what we’re voting on has got to be up close and very personal.

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