Why is the New Hampshire Governor Still Popular?

 Why is Governor John Lynch still so popular?

 That is a question that I have been asking myself for quite a while and this poll may finally give me an answer. When asked about New Hampshire’s budget problems here were the results:

In a poll of 619 New Hampshire adults between Feb. 5 and 9, only one-third said they have heard or read a lot about the state’s budget problems, 48 percent said they have heard a little and 18 percent said they have heard nothing. Yet, nearly half believe the state’s budget problems are “very serious” or “serious.”

 A total of 66% of the people polled replied that they have either heard only a little about the state’s budget problems or nothing at all, while only 33% polled have heard allot about the budget problems.

 66% of the people don’t know how Governor Lynch has spend this state into a huge fiscal hole! Residents of New Hampshire who know little or nothing about the budget problems that we face are simply not paying attention. And they are the vast majority.

 You can’t pick up a newspaper or watch the local news and not know something about the budget problem. Of course the news spins the problem to make it sound like it is the national economy that has sunk New Hampshire into a fiscal emergency when in fact the governor spent his way into this whole, but even that doesn’t matter if the voters of New Hampshire don’t even care enough to bother to pick up a paper or watch the news.

 In an odd way I feel a little better knowing this information. I thought that the voters liked the direction that Governor Lynch was leading the state and now I know that that might not be the case at all, voters are just to apathetic towards New Hampshire politics to even pay attention. It isn’t that voters approve of the job that Governor Lynch is doing, they just don’t care.

 That thought isn’t so reassuring after all, it is scary. So I leave you with a plea to the voters of New Hampshire:

 If you are a voter of New Hampshire and you do not follow politics or are to apathetic to follow the state budget or even the direction the state is headed in please do us all a favor; don’t decide on election day that you suddenly care, don’t show up on election day. If you don’t care enough to pay attention during the year please don’t pay attention on election day. If you don’t know the issues, don’t bother to vote on election day. We will all be better off for it.