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News of Orange County: <br /> CHCCS —2% <br /> OCS —20% <br /> WRAL-TV News: <br /> CHCCS —22% <br /> OCS —32% <br /> ABC-11 Eyewitness News: <br /> CHCCS — 14% <br /> OCS —22% <br /> WUNC Public Radio: <br /> CHCCS — 12% <br /> OCS —4% <br /> WRAL.com: <br /> CHCCS —5% <br /> OCS — 11% <br /> Methodology <br /> y The survey questionnaire was developed by Hertzog Research in conjunction with the <br /> Orange County Manager's Office. <br /> • Telephone interviewing was conducted by Hertzog Research's fielding partner, FGI <br /> Research of Chapel Hill, N.C., from its interviewing facility in Virginia Beach, Va. <br /> v The county's current voter registration list was obtained from the Orange County Board of <br /> Elections. From this comprehensive list, a randomized sample of names was drawn and <br /> matched with listed telephone numbers. From this sub-sample the respondents were <br /> contacted. <br /> Respondents were screened to assure that they still live in Orange County, and that they at <br /> least might vote in the 6 May 2008 primary election. Those who said they no longer live in <br /> the county, or that they probably or definitely would not be voting in the primary, were <br /> excluded. <br /> • Completions were monitored to assure that the total sample closely reflected likely voter <br /> turnout, using the November 2006 general election as a baseline, by gender, race, age <br /> group, and geography. <br /> > A total of 397 completed interviews were obtained, using random sampling from the voter <br /> registration list coupled with completion quotas to assure that the sample broadly reflected <br /> the county's likely voter turnout by age, race, and gender. <br /> s, Extra effort was made to obtain responses from the 18-to-25 age group, who represented a <br /> disproportion of non-working numbers, and of persons without land-line telephones. <br /> v The only notable geographic variation from the expected results was a disproportion of <br /> respondents who said they were residents of the Town of Hillsborough, and/or of zip code <br /> 27278. <br /> y The overall sampling error for this survey is ± 5.0%. <br /> Results were tabulated by FGI Research. Further analysis was performed by Hertzog <br /> Research using SPSS software. <br /> Commissioner Gordon asked about the preference of 43% versus 48% and verified with <br /> Dr. Hertzog that this is statistically a tie. <br />