A recent poll on Gov. Rick Snyder’s proposal to repeal the state’s item pricing law shows the public is evenly split on the issue.
About 45 percent of likely voters in Michigan now favor repealing the law, according to the late January poll by Marketing Resource Group. The same percentage want to keep it.
By contrast, a statewide poll in 1992 showed that 50 percent opposed repealing the measure.
The recent poll showed that Republicans are more likely to support repealing the law. Interestingly, men were more likely to repeal it. Fifty-six percent of men favor repealing, compared to 34 percent among women.
Is that because married women still generally do all the grocery shopping for a family? If that stereotype still holds, women at least are answering the survey from a solid base of experience? And it makes one wonder whether married men who stay away from grocery stores know what they are talking about.
All of which begs the question? Who does the grocery shopping in Rick Snyder’s household?
