Monday, October 30, 2006

Stay the Course-Hayhurst and Souder Poll

Hat tip to FWOB on the News-Sentinel and News Channel 15 Pre-Election Poll Results of 400 self-disclosed voters. More than likely they were not asked for their photo identification over the telephone. A nonpartisan firm was used to conduct a survey and came away with twenty-eight(28%) percent of the respondents disclosed they were Democrats, thirty-nine (39%)percent were Republicans and thirty-three(33%) percent were Independents. The gender of the voters were fifty-two (52%)percent females and forty-eight (48%) percent males.

The poll shows that women are more drawn to Hayhurst with 42% of the women compared to 38%. This makes sense because Hayhurst is a doctor, a caregiver and women can relate to him where as men would be threat by his profession and his wealth,( competitiveness).

If this ad does not take him over the top, Hayhurst might as well shake Souder hands right now.




The poll does not mention anything about race or age. Young people 18-24 do vote. Two factors that will weigh heavily in Hayhurst favor, but both candidates downplayed and takes for granted. The poll showed 74% of those called knew Hayhurst compared to the 83% that knew the long term incumbent Souder. This nine percent difference shows in the question asking the callers if they had to vote today who would they vote for and Hayhurst received 40% of the votes compared to Souder 52% and the unknown factor of 8%.


Here's a national poll on the issue found in the IndyStar.

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