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THE BATTLE of the pollsters is now on in earnest! The Bill Johnson poll has the PNP seven percentage points ahead, the Mark Wignall poll has the JLP seven percentage points ahead, and the Don Anderson poll has a statistical dead heat. And we haven't even heard from the Stone poll team yet!

The 25 per cent are the ones who chose to get enumerated; the profound political dropouts are those who declined to be enumerated in the first place, who were so appalled at the choices they were being asked to make that they didn't even want their names on the list. Some estimates put this figure as high as onethird of those eligible to be enumerated, which means that if you add the 25 per cent who will not vote, more than 50 per cent of the electorate - a real moral majority - are disenchanted with the quality of democracy in Jamaica. Politics in Jamaica is becoming a game played by fewer and fewer people.

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Political Dropouts

THE BATTLE of the pollsters is now on in earnest! The Bill Johnson poll has the PNP seven percentage points ahead, the Mark Wignall poll has the JLP seven percentage points ahead, and th...

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