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<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\nWayne Washington wrote for the AJC 12 October 2012,\n\nPoll shows tight race for charter schools amendment<\/a>,\n<\/p>\n\n\n \nBy a slim margin, likely voters support a constitutional amendment\nthat would create a commission to consider charter school\napplications, a poll conducted for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution\nshows.\n<\/p>\n \nThe proposed amendment has the support of 45 percent of likely\nvoters, with 42 percent opposed to it. Another 13 percent told\npollsters they don’t know about the amendment or offered no answer.\nThe poll, taken this week, has a margin of error of 5.3 percentage\npoints.\n<\/p>\n \nPolls conducted for supporters of the amendment show it has more\nsupport than what the AJC found. A poll conducted for opponents show\nthat a small majority of voters would vote against changing the\nconstitution….\n<\/p>\n \nThe poll of 908 adults was conducted Oct. 8-11 by Abt SRBI of New York.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \nThe poll conducted for opponents presumably is the\n\nHEG-GPS poll conducted 4 and 5 October.<\/a>\nPolls conducted for supporters would be all the previous ones.\n<\/p>\n \nThen there’s the one conducted by telephone 25 October 2012\n\nfor WSBTV<\/a>\nby\n\nLandmark Communications and Rosetta Stone Communications.<\/a>\nWSBTV says:\n<\/p>\n \nAccording to the latest Landmark Rosetta Stone poll of likely\nvoters, 47 percent of Georgians say they will vote for the charter\nschool amendment, while 37 percent will vote no. The remaining 16\npercent are undecided….\n<\/p>\n \nOn Thursday, 500 random likely voters were polled at 8 p.m. The\nmargin of error for the poll is 4.3 percent.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \nMark Rountree wrote for Peach Pundit 26 October 2012,\n\nNew Polling Results on Presidential Race and Charter Schools<\/a>,\n<\/p>\n \nOur firm released a joint poll today of the Presidential race and\nCharter Schools Amendment. We (Landmark Communications) conducted\nthe poll jointly with Rosetta Stone Communications last evening for\nChannel 2 News in Atlanta….\n<\/p>\n \nThat’s an interesting point, which indicates where opponents should focus\ntheir efforts: on students and parents with school-age children.\n<\/p>\n \nOn the other hand, I wonder if maybe the small sample size\ndidn’t let this most recent poll miss the party differences,\ncompared to what\n\nthe early October poll with a larger sample size<\/a> found.\n<\/p>\n \nThat would match with anecdotal evidence I’ve seen that a large part\nof what’s driving this thing is people in DeKalb County who don’t like\ntheir school board and are willing to sabotage the entire state instead\nof working to change that local county board.\n<\/p>\n \nAnd to add some more perspective:\neven this most positive poll for amendment supporters\nshows a Yes percentage smaller than any of the pre-October polls,\nso even in this best-case poll for the amendment shows support for\nit dropping over time.\nAnd the other October polls show even lower support.\n<\/p>\n \nI still say Amendment 1 is going down in flames worse than T-SPLOST did.\nWe’ll know in a week and a day.\n<\/p>\n\n
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<\/a>\nVote No on Amendment 1!\n<\/p>\n