It is with unwelcome frequency that I find myself the deciding vote.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When a poll is really, really out of whack with what I want to happen, I do have a tendency to disregard it.
To be confronted as you exit the polling place is really a matter of if you have the time, if you have the inclination to speak to a stranger, and if you want to divulge what is a very sacred, private matter - the way that you just voted.
Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.
I never felt comfortable with making political decisions based on whether, you know, it was the right thing to do in terms of a poll.
I am not interested in splitting the white vote.
The poll that matters is the one that happens on Election Day.
The vote controls everything that you do.
I think a 'no' vote is giving the victor, whoever that may be, the win without your participation.
I like to get input from all different kinds of listeners, including the really conservative ones, and sometimes those listeners steer me in a direction that I haven't seen. But at the end of the day, my vote is always to go in the direction that makes me the most excited.
I felt disconnected from the decisions made in Washington and, to be honest, really didn't think my vote mattered because I didn't have a direct line of sight from my vote to a result.