RBJ Poll: 80% Against Ren Square Without Arts Center
The Rochester Business Journal, of all places, is not where you’d expect to find resistance to our development-crazed local government. And if the Arts Center were included, a narrow majority of those the RBJ polled did support Ren Square, 54% to 46%.
But without it, 80% polled opposed the project.
The poll was conducted Tuesday, a little more than a week after Mayor Robert Duffy said he would not be inclined to support the $230 million Renaissance Square project if it no longer included a performing-arts center. His comment came in response to speculation that a lack of private funding may prompt Monroe County officials to drop the performing-arts center from the project.
Here’s my favorite quote from the article:
Rick Corey of Penfield agreed: “As usual they have it backwards. A performing-arts center would draw people into the city, but I don’t know anyone who would go downtown to spend an evening at a transit center.â€
Heh. But why be so negative, after all, if you build it, they will come, right? Isn’t that how it worked with the Fast Ferry?
I continue my campaign to get people to IGNORE on-line polling.
The poll numbers are statistically worthless. These poll numbers are not scientific polling.
The poll numbers do not represent any larger population. You cannot make any inferences about what this means. DO NOT MAKE INFERENCES FROM ONLINE POLLING.
These poll numbers are CRAP.
Please ignore all on-line polling. Please ignore this RBJ poll.
Even with a statistical power of zilch, I think you can still make some inferences about the larger population based on the difference between 46% opposed with arts center and 79% opposed w/o arts center.
So maybe it’s got a margin of error of 15 points, so what. It still says something.
Too, RBJ readers lean conservative, and tend to be decision makers and influential people in Monroe County, so even though it’s not solid proof it’s still worth reporting.
It is what it is.
The arts center portion of ren squared is dead as confirmed by reliable sources at the county office building. that people who read the rbj are conservative says a lot about the republican led project - nobody wants it. put the true costs of ren squared inluding operating costs on the table then put it to a countywide referendum. I bet the majority of voters will turn it down. the project stinks of dirty politics.
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