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Last Updated on Monday, 9 March 2009 11:39 Written by rslcpol Monday, 9 March 2009 11:39
From the Burlington Free Press:
Each March, state Sen. William Doyle composes a one-sheet “Town Meeting Day Survey” containing about a dozen questions, spends his own money to print thousands of copies and distributes it around the state at town meetings.
George Gallup, he’s not: The surveys are anything but scientific, the field of respondents self-selected, the questions bordering on loaded. But the anonymous public opinion surveys have evolved into a rite of spring for Vermonters, who take the opportunity to tell the Statehouse how they feel about issues that never make it onto Town Meeting Day agendas or Election Day ballots.