CHAMBERSBURG \u2013 A recent Franklin and Marshall College poll showed that respondents weren\u2019t happy with the economy or President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n
The poll also predicted that Josh Shapiro will win the governorship in PA.<\/p>\n
The polling size was 546 registered voters.<\/p>\n
The sample error is 5.1%.<\/p>\n
Pat Ryan of News Talk 103.7FM pointed out, \u201cWe do have a statistically reliable sample here. It\u2019s kind of a moving target. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s responsible, in my humble opinion, that you throw out all this information, the media gets all these headlines and buried in there at the end of the story, we asked 546 people about this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Attorney Clint Barkdoll said, \u201cThis polling stuff is fraught with those kind of concerns, because even if you look at national polls, a national polling sample is often 1,000 people or 1,500 and they extrapolate that out using all kinds of methodology. It\u2019s kind of remarkable. This is Burwood Yost at Franklin and Marshall. The polling size is small, but he\u2019s got a very high rating historically on accuracy of these polls on races.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the poll, 89% of these respondents favor a bell to bell cell phone ban in Pennsylvania schools and 71% favor taxing skill gains.<\/p>\n
Barkdoll said, \u201cAs we say often, those are just overwhelming majorities that you would think school boards or in the state legislature would be moving on.\u201d<\/p>\n
The race for PA Governor is the big issue in this poll.<\/p>\n
Current Governor Shapiro is taking on PA Treasurer Stacy Garrity in November.<\/p>\n
Barkdoll said, \u201cHe has Shapiro at 50% Garrity at 28%. That 22 point margin is very consistent with every poll that\u2019s coming out. Shapiro is up by 20 or so points. I keep saying when this happens, though, there\u2019s still time. She has the summer getting into the fall to make up that ground, but she appears to be at an incredible deficit. Interesting, though, that number for Shapiro at 50%, this approval rating has actually ticked down a bit. You may recall earlier in the year there were polls that had his approval at more like 55% and 60%, so that number is a little bit down for him. Trump\u2019s approval in this poll, 29%. That\u2019s an all-time low in this poll, that\u2019s creating some headwinds for Stacy Garrity too.\u201d<\/p>\n
Michele Jansen of News Talk 103.7FM noted, \u201cI wish there was a follow-up question, though, for these people. Why do you like Shapiro? Because I\u2019m sure they can\u2019t really give a great answer. What would they say? Oh, he doesn\u2019t say crazy things. Oh, well, his family was attacked. And, of course, everybody feels sympathy for that. Oh, he did I-95. No, he didn\u2019t. That was the federal government. What would they say is the reason that they approve of him?\u201d<\/p>\n
Barkdoll agreed, \u201cThat would be a great question for Yost to ask.\u201d<\/p>\n
There\u2019s also an op-ed in today\u2019s Wall Street Journal about the midterms.<\/p>\n
Barkdoll said, \u201cThe point of it is that the party who wins may be the one that voters just see as less extreme. The point being, voters are frustrated with everybody, and might end up voting for the candidate they see as less extreme, and I\u2019ve often wondered, is that what is boosting Shapiro? He\u2019s not seen as radical, even though you would be hard pressed to come up with a bunch of agenda or initiatives that he\u2019s implemented. Do people just see him as more normal than some of these other candidates?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHAMBERSBURG \u2013 A recent Franklin and Marshall College poll showed that respondents weren\u2019t happy with the economy or…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[58003,97137,35492,42819,28,30,29,7739,13204],"class_list":["post-223481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-details","tag-dive","tag-economic","tag-info","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-political","tag-poll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}