Post by Logan on Jan 16, 2016 22:12:34 GMT -6
In a week when the president of the United States, the governor of South Carolina and the speaker of the U.S. House rebutted divisive views on the national stage, results of a Rocky Mountain poll indicated that opinions here also are less extreme than the loud angry voices regularly in the news.
Montanans, Wyomingites and their neighbors in Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico tend to value their public lands, enjoy the outdoors and want their elected leaders to seek common ground to solve problems. Those are some takeaways from the Conservation in the West Poll released last week by Colorado College in Colorado Springs.
Now in its sixth year, this conservation issues poll was conducted by a Republican pollster from Public Opinion Strategies and a Democratic pollster with Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz and Associates. They conducted telephone interviews by cellphone or landline last month with 400 people in each of the seven states. The results are scientifically valid with a margin of error of 2.74 percent regionally and 4.9 percent statewide.
With those caveats, let’s look at what Montana and Wyoming folks had to say.
Continue reading at billingsgazette.com/news/opinion/editorial/gazette-opinion/why-westerners-love-their-public-lands/article_672ef0fa-d5a4-5b01-b62e-94149836e329.html .
Montanans, Wyomingites and their neighbors in Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico tend to value their public lands, enjoy the outdoors and want their elected leaders to seek common ground to solve problems. Those are some takeaways from the Conservation in the West Poll released last week by Colorado College in Colorado Springs.
Now in its sixth year, this conservation issues poll was conducted by a Republican pollster from Public Opinion Strategies and a Democratic pollster with Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz and Associates. They conducted telephone interviews by cellphone or landline last month with 400 people in each of the seven states. The results are scientifically valid with a margin of error of 2.74 percent regionally and 4.9 percent statewide.
With those caveats, let’s look at what Montana and Wyoming folks had to say.
Continue reading at billingsgazette.com/news/opinion/editorial/gazette-opinion/why-westerners-love-their-public-lands/article_672ef0fa-d5a4-5b01-b62e-94149836e329.html .