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The Talbot Spy Survey #26 Results – Vaccines

September 16, 2020 by The Talbot Spy Leave a Comment

With all the news about vaccines for the virus, we asked Spy readers about their intentions to take the vaccine once it is available. Clearly, Spy readers are waiting for the opportunity, although some will wait for a few months.

From those of you who responded, we see that just over 40% of you will get the vaccine within the first two months after it becomes available. Interesting to note that only 2% said they would not take the vaccine.

Take The Talbot Spy Survey #26 — Vaccine Views

September 13, 2020 by The Talbot Spy 6 Comments

There is an enormous worldwide push to find a vaccine that fights COVID-19. We’re wondering how Spy readers feel about taking the vaccine. Share your views!

Take the Spy Survey here

The Talbot Spy Survey #25 Results— Issues That Matter Most

September 9, 2020 by The Talbot Spy Leave a Comment

Our weekly survey found many of you interested in a variety of issues. Biden supporters outnumbered Trump supporters among the readers who responded and for most of them, defeating President Trump was a very strong issues. Among the likely Trump voters, law and order along with the economy were the most prominent issues.

Here is a word cloud showing the words most frequently mentioned by readers. Where a hyphen appears, that is because more than one mention was made of the same issue, just worded slightly differently so we combined the numbers.

Take The Talbot Spy Survey #25 – Issues

September 6, 2020 by The Talbot Spy 1 Comment

We have just a couple of months to go before the election. Who knows what issues the candidates will focus on and debate. What we’d like to know is what issues are most important to Spy readers. Share your thoughts and we’ll report on Wednesday.

CLICK HERE. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NNVXV36

The Talbot Spy Survey #24 Results – Top of Mind

September 2, 2020 by The Talbot Spy

This week, with both national political party conventions behind us, we asked for words that come to the top of mind for both presidential candidates. We received a large number of responses; however, the balance of Republicans to Independents and Democrats was lower than we normally see suggesting that many of our Republican readers elected not to participate.

Presented below are the word clouds created from the top of mind words submitted by all readers who participated. We should remind you, these are samples of Spy readers who chose to participate.

The Word Cloud for Joe Biden

The Word Cloud for Donald Trump

Take the Talbot Spy Survey #24 – Describe the Candidates

August 30, 2020 by The Talbot Spy

Our sense is people have pretty firm views of the candidates for President. We’ll build some word clouds, so just give us what comes to the top of your mind when you think about Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

Look for our report in The Spy on Wednesday…and, be sure you are registered to vote!

Take the survey here

The Talbot Spy Survey #23 Results: Political Conventions

August 27, 2020 by The Talbot Spy

We asked this week about how much interest our readers had in the National Conventions. Clearly, these are Conventions like no other. For good reason, they were for the most part virtual events. The questions were asked on Sunday, right between the Democratic Convention’s conclusion and the start of the Republican Convention.

With Conventions designed – usually – to reach a broader audience and build supporters beyond a candidate’s base, we were interested in how attentive Republicans, Democrats and Independents would be to even watch the National Conventions.

We had a strong response and a great deal of data. Here are the highlights:

When it comes to watching the Conventions, Democrats showed the strongest interest, with 83% indicating they would watch some or all of the Democratic Convention. This compares to Republicans who indicated that 66% would watch their Republican Convention. Most importantly, only 21% of Republicans said they would watch most of it versus nearly 60% of Democrats who said they would watch most of their Convention.

As for Independents, 59% indicated they would watch some or most of the Democratic Convention while 42% said they would watch some or most of the Republican Convention.

Assuming that it harder to persuade voters that do not tune in to your message, the Democratic Convention seems to have an advantage in reaching voters.

Then, when it comes to the Conventions of the future, there is a pretty consistent view among all who responded. Overall, about 1 out of 3 readers suggested that the Conventions going forward should be virtual with another 1 out of 3 suggesting some combination of virtual and live. But, even here there were party differences with 45% of Democrats calling for virtual conventions versus 8% of Republicans. And, while 29% of Republicans favored large conventions in the future there was not a single Democrat who suggested that would be desirable.

So, election year 2020 continues with the intensity growing right up to November 3rd.

Remember, your views only count on November 3rd if you are registered to vote and cast a ballot. Need to register to vote in 2020? CLICK HERE

Take the Talbot Spy Survey #23 – National Conventions

August 23, 2020 by The Talbot Spy

We sit halfway through the national party conventions that preview both parties’ candidates for president and vice president. For decades, these events were attended by thousands and produced for television to reach millions. This year is very, very different. So, we wonder what you think and if you are watching. Take the weekly Spy Survey and look for results in the Spy on Wednesday.

Check here to take the survey.

The Talbot Spy Survey #22 Results: The VP Choice

August 19, 2020 by The Talbot Spy

This week’s Talbot Spy Survey found a few hundred readers sharing with us their views about the Presidential campaign following Joe Biden’s selection of Kamala Harris for Vice President. Our desire was to understand how this selection is currently affecting attitudes about the candidates.

It is important to remember that this is not a random survey of voters in the region. It is a survey of Spy readers who decided to participate. Unlike the tracking polls you can read about daily, our survey is more relevant to help understand how individuals associated with the parties feel about the selection of Kamala Harris as opposed to a measure of how citizens in the community will vote.

Key highlights from what we found in the readers survey:

30% of Republicans are more likely to support the Biden/Harris ticket now.

32% of Republicans responding would vote for Biden/Harris today.

99% of Democrats responding are more likely to support the Biden/Harris ticket now.

99% of Democrats responding would vote for Biden/Harris today.

60% of Independents responding are more likely to support the Biden/Harris ticket now.

62% of Independents responding would vote for Biden/Harris today.

These findings suggest to The Spy that the selection of Kamala Harris has been very helpful to Joe Biden among Independents and even somewhat beneficial to winning over some Republicans, at least in the view of Spy readers who participated in the weekly survey.

Of course, there are a number of weeks before the election is final and things can change. Perhaps we will check back after the virtual conventions have concluded and we are all closer to the election.

Thanks to all of those who participated!

Take the Talbot Spy Survey #22 – A Vice Presidential Choice

August 16, 2020 by The Talbot Spy

The big news last week was presidential candidate Joe Biden’s selection of Kamala Harris as his running mate in this year’s election.

We thought we’d check and see how this affects our readers thinking about the campaign in our weekly survey. The results will appear on Wednesday and our commentators, Al From and Craig Fuller will discuss it in the Thursday edition of The Talbot Spy.

To share your views, CLICK HERE https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PD3RTSC

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