Bill Shipp's Georgia discusses results of a new Republican poll.

In a new poll released this week by the Republican polling firm Strategic Vision Taylor received a 50 percent approval rating; with 34 percent disapproval; and 16 percent undecided. Cox received a 54 percent approval rating; 35 percent disapproval; and 11 percent undecided.

When Democrats were asked their choice for governor in 2006, Cox led Taylor in the poll with 48 percent to 36 percent for Taylor with 16 percent undecided.

In potential match-ups between Perdue and Taylor, the results were Perdue 52 percent; Taylor 40 percent; and 8 percent undecided. Against Cox, the results were Perdue 51 percent; Cox 45 percent, and 4 percent undecided.

The poll found that 53 percent of respondents approved of Perdue's job performance, with 37% disapproving, and 10 percent undecided.

The poll of 800 likely Georgia voters was conducted on July 31-August 2, 2005, and has a margin of error of the +/- 3 percent.

In discussing the poll, Matt Towery noted that while he never takes polls which are affiliated or poll for one particular party as seriously as others, "this particular firm has proven to be pretty good . . . but I don’t think we have a news quality survey yet that tells us where the races really are.”

"Typically, the sort of poll we conduct for news organizations which we or Zogby conduct for news organizations, would show an undecided in at least the double digits this far out," Towery writes in discussing the poll.
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Could it be different this time? Based on my experience to date, I have talked with very few Democrats who do not already have a candidate. But Matt Towery is probably correct in noting that more voters are undecided that this poll indicates.

Why? Readers of this blog follow politics very closely. But no doubt many of the masses at this time, a year away from the election, have not given much thought to whom they will vote for. And one of our jobs is to just make sure they vote Democratic.