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CD2 Poll · Newsradio WGAN

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For a minute, I mean, seriously, I'll, I'll just read to you from
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the actual poll itself. In the Democratic primary for
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the US House of Representatives in Maine Second District, 23% of
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likely voters say their first choice would be former
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congressional aide Jordan Wood. Jordan Wood.
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If the primary were held today, 22% would say Joe Baldacci, 17%
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would say Maine State Auditor Matt Dunlap, and 14% would vote
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for apparently Paige Loud, which is the other candidate running
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there, while less than 1% would vote for another candidate.
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Wood is the most personally popular candidate among the
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Democratic primary voters in CD, 240% of the people who answered
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the poll have a favorable opinion of Wood, 8% have an
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unfavorable favorable opinion, and 24% are neutral. 27% don't
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know enough about him to say yielding in that favorability of
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plus 32. Dunlap is the next most popular
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with a + 25 rating, followed by Loudon Baldacci, both at 13 and
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12 respectively. I mean, come on, does anybody
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believe that? Does anybody believe that?
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And I, I chose this one specifically to talk about
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briefly before I go back to the calls and do more phones just to
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try to justify my constant criticism of the polling you're
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getting in Maine. Because it seems like every poll
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that comes out, Matt says something like this poll is crap
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and you shouldn't really watch it or listen to it.
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This is really, really unreliable.
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This is bad. This they're they're doing it
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wrong or some version of that. And I feel kind of guilty saying
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that because it just sounds like I'm a pole doubter now.
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And I suppose in some respects I am because they have such a
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terrible track record. But I guess the real point here
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is that they just can't give me anything that I can say anything
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positive about. No one in this planet believes
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that Jordan would has 23% of the vote in the Democratic primary
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for CD2. It's the wrong district for him.
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He's barely doing any media. The other candidates are
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attracting all the media attention.
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They're attracting all the voter attention.
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They're attracting all the everybody attention.
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You know, it's really Baldacci and Dunlap that you really pay
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attention to. And Jordan Woods and also ran.
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But no, he's leading apparently and is the most popular among
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them. I mean, if that and I will
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happily eat my hat if that guy ends up winning or that result
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looks even remotely close to true when they actually start
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voting in that first round. I'll, I'll, I'll eat crow over
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it. I'm happy to do that, but I
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mean, come on, Not only is this the only pole that has ever
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shown anything like this, it also just flies directly in the
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face of what we anecdotally know about that that race.
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And then you start applying that same skepticism to everything
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else that's in these poles from the gubernatorial results on on
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down. And Plattner Collins, yes, I
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mean, it just strikes you as a very, very unreliable, mixed up,
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poorly designed pole again. And honestly, UNH is worse than
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Pan Atlantic to me and they always have been.
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They're not good at Maine. They're not, I don't know, I
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don't even think they're that good period.
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But they just can't do Maine right.
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And a Maine primary. Are you kidding?
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You guys should throw all this stuff in the trash bin.
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You really should. I suppose we have to cover it, I
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guess. But man, we shouldn't 'cause it
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sucks. It is not reliable.
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I mean, they, they have like 20 something percent independence
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as a respondent in the poll for primary elections.
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And we all know that the independence will be voting in
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this because of course they can. Now they can pick a party and
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they can pull a pull a ballot and they'll do it, but not 20%.
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It'll be more like 5-6 probably. So it's just everything about
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it's wrong. Everything about it's wrong.