According to the last pre-election poll in Whippleton, most voters believe that the three problems government needs to address, in order of importance, air pollution, crime, and unemployment  Yet in the election, candidates from parties perceived as strongly against pollution were defeated, while those elected were all from parties with a history of opposing legislation designed to reduce pollution
These results should not be taken to indicate that the poll was inaccurate, however, since
every candidate who was defeated had a strong antipollution record