Voters on the fence targeted
Posted Apr 2, 2012 7:39 am.
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The leaders of Alberta’s various political parties are turning their attention to the undecided voter.
With recent polls putting the number of undecided voters as high as 20 per cent, the difference between forming government or filling the opposition bench could boil down to winning over voters who are sitting on the fence.
A political scientist at the University of Windsor tells 660News striking a cord with the undecided and getting them out to vote are two different things.
Cheryl Collier says quite often voters simply blow-off pollsters by saying they haven’t made up their mind.
Collier says a recent poll shows only about 15 per cent of the population closely follows politics, which means the other 85 per cent are not that interested.
She also says for many voters, the Tories and Wildrose parties are almost interchangeable because both have right wing policies and both have female leaders.
Albertans head to the polls April 23rd.
