Ballot Question 1 Shocks Massachusetts Establishment

The Boston Globe's last pre-election poll on Ballot Question 1 claimed that the Yes vote would be 34%.

WHDH-TV News/Suffolk University showed the Ballot Question 1 Yes vote at 34%.

The Boston Herald's showed the Ballot Question 1 Yes vote polling at 25%.

All 3 pollsters claimed to be accurate to within 5%.

Then WHY did we get 45.3% of the vote? 45.3%!

Why did we come within 4.8% of winning on Ballot Question 1?

Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, WHDH-TV News, and Suffolk University voter polling were way outside the margin of error.

How do we explain 3 Major News Media Polls - conducted just days before the voting - coming in so inaccurate, so unreliable, so far from the truth?

All 3 Independent Polling Organizations claimed that support for Ballot Question 1 was between 11% and 20% LOWER than the Election Day vote. All 3 radically UNDERSTATED voter support for Ending the Income Tax

Were all 3 polls flawed? Were all 3 polling organizations incompetent?

Were all 3 polling organizations misinformed by the people they called?

We don't know the answers to these questions.

But we do know that their polling was unreliable.

Here's how the vote went:

886,313 people voted Yes on 1: 45.3%

1,070,659 people voted No on 1: 54.7%

45.3% of Massachusetts voters voted to End the Income Tax.

Our Libertarian Ballot Question 1 to End the Income tax won in 30% of the cities and towns of Massachusetts. Here's a list of the towns where it won a majority vote:

Tolland 60.9%
Groveland 60.6%
Clinton 60.2%
Blackstone 60.0%
Holland 58.9%
Gosnold 58.7%
Nantucket 58.6%
Millville 58.6%
Rehoboth 58.2%
Monroe 57.6%
Boxford 57.2%
Douglas 56.0%
Lynnfield 55.6%
Middleton 55.3%
Carver 55.3%
Revere 55.1%
Seekonk 55.0%
Dover 54.7%
Salisbury 54.7%
Chester 54.6%
Halifax 54.5%
Middleborough 54.5%
Mashpee 54.3%
Cohasset 54.1%
Sandwich 54.0%
Plympton 53.9%
Soutwick 53.8%
Dunstable 53.6%
Methuen 53.1%
Rochester 53.0%
Uxbrige 53.0%
Haverhill 53.0%
Wales 53.0%
Rowley 52.9%
Charlton 52.9%
Dudley 52.8%
North Andover 52.8%
Sterling 52.7%
Webster 52.7%
Tyngsborough 52.7%
Bellingham 52.7%
Swansea 52.6%
Brimfield 52.6%
Lakeville 52.5%
Winchendon 52.4%
Mendon 52.4%
Barnstable 52.4%
Attleboro 52.2%
Sutton 52.2%
Peru 52.2%
Norfolk 52.0%
Plymouth 52.0%
Lunenburg 52.0%
Townsend 51.9%
Brookfield 51.9%
Lancaster 51.9%
Ayer 51.8%
Wareham 51.8%
Dracut 51.8%
East Brookfield 51.8%
Tewksbury 51.7%
East Bridewater 51.6%
Topsfield 51.5%
Georgetown 51.5%
Saugus 51.4%
Pepperell 51.4%
Warren 51.3%
North Attleborough 51.2%
Hubbardston 51.2%
Freetown 51.2%
Billerica 51.1%
West Bridgewater 51.1%
Royalston 51.1%
Hanover 51.0%
Pembroke 51.0%
Manchester-by-the-Sea 51.0%
Avon 51.0%
Winthrop 50.9%
Berkley 50.9%
Kingston 50.8%
Shirley 50.8%
Hopkinton 50.8%
Spencer 50.8%
Hanson 50.6%
Yarmouth 50.6%
Medway 50.5%
Whitman 50.5%
Leicester 50.4%
Marion 50.4%
Peabody 50.4%
Phillipston 50.4%
Milford 50.3%
Duxbury 50.3%
Amesbury 50.3%
Granville 50.3%
Dennis 50.3%
Harwich 50.2%
Marshfield 50.2%
Southborough 50.2%
Westminster 50.1%
Chatham 50.1%
Danvers 50.1%

Another 26 towns came within 1% of winning.

This was a huge step toward making Massachusetts government small.