I don't want to bother with it. The more I listen to them, the less I want to vote. In such a rosy world, candidates may have a tough time finding issues that will resonate with voters. Even offers of tax cuts, usually an election-year staple, are being shrugged off. Gov. John Engler in his State of the State address Wednesday proposed a tax cut, yet a surprisingly low 52 percent of those polled felt the state's taxes are too high.
People pay more attention when things are bad.
East Lansing pollster Steve Mitchell, who conducted the statewide survey for The News, said candidates will have to avoid negative politics. The last thing they want government to do is to rock the boat and jeopardize their security and an economy that's been going along so well. People are going to be looking more at character and personality than looking at specific issues. Communications Inc. It has an error margin of 4 percentage points. Meanwhile, those who viewed morals and ethics as the most important problem more than doubled, from 6 percent to 13 percent.