A St. Petersburg Times/Bay News 9 poll taken on October 20 thru 22 of 800 local voters showed some very conflicting attitudes to the reality of these economic times. The poll also gave statistics on voter preference and expectations of the next President of the United States, but those numbers were of little surprise.
Do 42% of those polled truly believe their “personal economic situation to be better over the next year”? Do another 39% have faith in their belief that they expect their status “stay the same”? It’s the 12% who “expect it to get worse” that have a better grip on current, and the foreseeable future, financial trends.
That leaves yet another 7% who don’t care, aren’t legally registered voters or on their way out of State.
Those positive-thinking 336 might be the financially secure who can easily afford the rising costs of healthcare, the next round of increasing energy costs and haven’t bothered to check their 401k accounts. I assume their investments in homeownership still provide an upward-moving equitable balance sheet. Perhaps they expect a personal bailout?
They certainly aren’t retirees living on Social Security and Medicare benefits. They most definitely have no fear that they will be among the next 7%, or more, of unemployed Floridians.
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