UPP Wants CASURO Results

"Why isn't the Antigua Sun, which commissioned an edition of the CASURO Poll, publishing the findings?"

That's the question being asked by Chairman of the United Progressive Party Leon Chaku Symister.

Symister says it's sad that the poll hasn't been published, and that by not publishing it, the local paper is seemingly shielding those whom the survey may not have favoured.

The leader of the Antigua Labour Party (ALP), Lester Bird, has questioned the integrity of the CASURO poll and its projections for the next general election.
"The person responsible for the CASURO poll is also the campaign manager for Wilmoth Daniel, the deputy master-in-chief of the UPP,"

Bird said in an earlier address. "Any poll, produced by CASURO, must therefore
reflect his own wishful thinking."

Symister, however, describes this reasoning as illusionary.

"It would be up to the readers to determine what weight they would give to a poll, where allegedly there is an implication of bias," he explains. "But it goes beyond that. Polls have now become part of our political culture. Polling is a measure of public opinion on a host of issues, which give an indication of where people stand on certain issues."

Symister believes that by stifling the results of the CASURO poll, the paper is doing a great disservice to the state.

"The Antigua Sun has hit the CASURO poll a low blow by shattering its objectivity," he says.

Both Bird and Symister agree, however, that the only poll of note is that of the voters on Election Day.

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