Sun Poll predicted mayoral primary
The results of Baltimore’s Democratic primary election are in — and they show the accuracy of The Sun Poll.
The survey conducted by the Annapolis polling firm OpinionWorks last month predicted the order in which the mayoral challengers finished and, after distributing the undecided respondents among the candidates, gave a good approximation of their shares of the vote:
Candidate Poll response / Primary vote
Stephanie Rawlings-Blake 50 percent / 52 percent
Catherine E. Pugh 12 / 25
Otis Rolley 10 / 13
Joseph T. “Jody” Landers III 5 / 7
Frank M. Conaway Sr. 5 / 3
Wilton Wilson 0 / 0
Undecided 18 / n/a
The Baltimore Sun commissioned the OpinionWorks to conduct the survey of 742 likely Democratic primary voters on their mayoral picks and other issues from Aug. 22 to 24.
Comments
You're actually tooting your horn over this? An illegal just off the burro from Mexico could have predicted the outcome.
Posted by: MuchoZero | September 14, 2011 5:23 PM
"Predicted"? More like DECIDED.
Posted by: Tom | September 15, 2011 3:48 PM
According to a Sun Post: During the 2010 Election, when a person voted for the Republican candidate for Senator, the machine kept on recording the name of Senator Mikulski. The only explanation for this technical anomaly is that the machine was programmed so that when a person voted for the Republican Candidate, Senator Mikulski's name would appear instead. It's easy to predict the outcome of an election as long as you use a electronic voting machine ( with no paper trail) that can be programmed to give the desired result. It's interesting to note that when the levers were used, no such results could be predicted. This technical anomaly will be reported to the Federal Voting Commission to determine if any fraud was involved.
Posted by: Mary Massey | September 15, 2011 6:51 PM