New Poll Says Expected the Unexpected to Vote in November
July 25th, 2018 by Mike Vasilinda
A new poll by the Florida Chamber of Commerce suggest nearly one in three voters this election cycle won’t be your typical voters.
Restaurant owner Pam Buchanan is one of those voters who surprised pollsters two years ago.
She registered and cast her first vote ever for Donald Trump.
She’s still a staunch supporter.
“He is our President. I don’t care if you like him or not, you need to show that man some respect,” said Buchanan.
The new poll suggests 30% of the people who vote this cycle will be either new voters or those who vote infrequently.
Most will be motivated one way of the other by their perception of Donald Trump.
“The 30 percent are not your traditional voters,” said Andrew Wiggins with the Florida Chamber of Commerce. “The one’s who turned out in 16 who had not turned out before because of energy in the race. Was it a little bit Donald Trump? Yes. It was also a little bit of anti-Donald Trump.”
The Chamber says Trump was the major factor Tuesday in the Georgia GOP primary for Governor.
It was won by a gun-toting Brian Kemp
“Two things if you gonna date one of my daughters?” Respect. And? A healthy appreciation for the second amendment, sir,” Kemp said in a campaign advertisement.
“The sitting Secretary of State took out the sitting Lt. Governor based upon being being mobilized with the Trump endorsement,” said Wiggins.
Contrary to pollsters conventional wisdom, Pam Buchanan won’t be voting this election.
Her reason. Trump isn’t on the ballot
“ I don’t listen to it enough to make an opinion, so it would be wrong for me to vote,” said Buchanan.
A county map compiled by the chamber shows no party leading the new registrations in most of the counties with the GOP increasing the most in North Florida.
Democrats won the registration battle in only two counties.
704,439 voters have registered in Florida since the 2016 election.
The Chamber data also shows young people are registering to vote, but not at a pace much larger than they did two years ago.
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