[cripplecreek]

The trend doesn't look good.

[Verginius Rufus]

I don't recall the details but I think there was some gimmickry going on in 1998 that forced people to vote for "none of the above" if they didn't want either independence or statehood. Normally a "none of the above" option gets a small fraction of the vote, but in this case it got more than all of the other choices combined.

The House bill will apparently force the Commonwealth to keep voting on this issue every 8 years until they get the answer the Democrats want. Sort of like the referenda in the EU which had to be redone until the people of a country voted the way the bureaucrats in Brussels wanted them to vote.

[Charles Martel]

What's the story behind the 1993 - 1998 shift? Was "None of the above" an option in the '93 poll?

In the same period, support for statehood grew only .1%. Looks like the majority preferences are for:

- No change;
- Commonwealth; and
- Statehood

In that order. Is there any more recent data on this available?