— said they aren’t too familiar or not familiar at all with the proposal as of late June and early July, when pollsters conducted interviews. Magellan Strategies, based in Louisville, paid for and conducted the poll. It’s the first public poll to gauge support for the measure.
Approval for the measure goes from 54% when respondents just read the ballot measure to 43% when they hear more. Undecided voters remain near static, at 12% and 11%, respectively. However, 71% of all respondents said they’re still ultimately undecided. The poll didn’t seek to influence voters or test messages, Flaherty said, but sought to gauge people’s opinions as they learned more. He acknowledged it as a tough needle to thread and that some angles, such as school funding, weren’t explicitly polled because the firm didn’t have solid projections on the measure’s effects.