Sen./Professor Bill Doyle's town meeting day survey results are in. Here are samplings, keeping in mind that this thing is not fodder for the mind but not scientific:
Barack Obama leads the way for president among Vermonters who attended town meeting and filled out a form. Hillary Clinton, Rudy Guiliani, John McCain and John Edwards followed in that order.
People were tied on whether gay marriage should be legalized in Vermont - 46-46 percent with 8 percent unsure.
Statewide cell and high-speed Internet service are important to the state's future, 82 percent said. Eight percent said that's not so. Ten percent were not sure, which does make you wonder if that 10 percent is sure of anything.
Sixty-eight percent liked the idea of commercial windmills on Vermont's ridgelines.
Sixty-eight percent also said Vermont should reduce its prison population through alternatives for non-violent offenders.
The ubiquitous 68 percent also would prohibit people from using cell phones while driving.
Public financing of political campaigns won the hearts of 30 percent, but 51 percent don't like the idea. Nineteen percent had no idea what that meant.
Fifty percent said Gov. Douglas is doing a good job, while 29 percent said he wasn't and 21 percent weren't sure.
Thirty-seven percent said the Legislature is doing a good job, while 35 percent said not so, and 28 percent were not sure.
If that last one lead you to believe that people thought the Legislature was wasting its time on global warming, then explain this one: Sixty-one said Vermont should take the lead in addressing global warming.
- Terri Hallenbeck
