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...Insurance in Minneapolis, which sells annuities--insurance products that trade off risk and the potentially higher returns that stocks or bonds offer in exchange for a guaranteed payback. (Most annuities are guaranteed by state insurance regulators.) Investors who wouldn't know an annuity from a pineapple are asking one question: Is my money safe...
...them and do a hard sell: "You say, 'Give me 15 seconds. From one human being to another, 15 seconds. I'm here because you're important. I'm here because you matter. They sent me here because you and the people who don't want to answer this question matter more to my magazine than any other Americans. Please teach me. Educate me.'" I bet Luntz doesn't go home alone very often...
...interested less in which candidate Hamilton County will vote for than in finding out what kind of person votes a month before the election. To my shock, none of them told me they were voting early "to avoid old people." Equally surprising, no one found that question to be strange. The voters were, however, dubious about my professionalism when I asked whether "people sometimes call them anal"--though 36% said yes. Also, 36% had already done some Christmas shopping and their taxes, 44% applied early admission to college, and one-third had stamps on them. Two even said they...
Because I'm not a professional pollster, my results, much like my questions, were unusual. For instance, while 32% of voters said the economy was their No. 1 issue, 12% chose Supreme Court appointments, 4% cared most about health care, and a shocking 56% fell under the category "I forgot to ask that question...
...making such well-informed decisions that none of them said they were nervous that something would happen before the election to make them regret their vote. "Obama would have to eat a baby onstage with condiments and not wash his hands after," one told me. Another thought about my question for a minute and said, "Nothing could happen that I couldn't rationalize...