`Encouraging' poll numbers
Bermuda Party conference at the Southampton Princess on Saturday, sources said.
But the Premier said he did not plan to call a snap election.
Dr. Saul reported recent polling from New York pollster Penn & Schoen, saying that more than 30 percent of voters surveyed expressed support for the UBP, 27 percent for the Progressive Labour Party, a small percentage for neither party, and a large block of undecided voters, a source told The Royal Gazette .
Allocation of the undecided vote would give the UBP the 50 percent it garnered in the 1993 general election, but he wanted to increase that to 55 percent, Dr. Saul reportedly said.
As for Dr. Saul, 40 percent of the electorate either approved or strongly approved of him, while ten percent disapproved, the conference was told.
Crime and drugs were far and away the most important issues to Bermuda's voters.