Posted on 06/17/2009 12:59:24 PM PDT by SmithL
Two of California's top pollsters said Tuesday that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and some lawmakers are miscasting last month's special election as a clarion call against any new taxes to solve California's fiscal crisis.
Instead, pollsters Mark DiCamillo and Mark Baldassare characterized the May 19 vote against five budget measures as an order to a dysfunctional state government to fix California's budget mess – and do so quickly.
"We've heard a lot of people say the vote means 'no new taxes.' I would question that," said Baldassare, survey director for the Public Policy Institute of California, in the pollsters' joint appearance before the Sacramento Press Club.
DiCamillo, director of the California Field Poll, said pre-election polling indicated voters favored a blend of spending cuts and "targeted taxes rather than sweeping taxes."
DiCamillo said voters opposed expanding sales taxes or boosting taxes on businesses or gasoline. But he said they widely favored "sin taxes" targeting pornography, alcohol and tobacco and strongly backed hiking income taxes on people earning more than $1 million a year.
Baldassare said the election turnout of just 28 percent of registered voters skewed strongly conservative. He said half of voters were age 55 and over and a near equal number of Republicans as Democrats turned out in a blue state.
"The vote in this election, which for some time has been described as reflecting the will of the people, doesn't reflect the will of the people," Baldassare said.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
"The vote in this election, which for some time has been described as reflecting the will of the people, doesn't reflect the will of the people," Baldassare said.In other words, it doesn't suit their agenda.
PPI = Democrat Party organ.
And the “polls” they threw out are largely the blatherings of the idiots (read: liberal class warfare types) who don’t see any further than what the DNC tells them to think...”Oh! Rich person! Get them! Kill the oppressor who gave you a JOB!”
Figures can lie but liars always figure
Now the polsters are telling the people what they say is not what they mean?? How big of a hammer must you hit these clowns with before they understand we say is what we mean and what we mean is what we say!!
I’m surprised they have to try to spin the fact that the government of California is going to do whatever they want, will of the people be damned. Just do it and be done with it. It’s not like the majority of Californians are intelligent enough to vote them out.
In other words, the left does not trust an election as the will of the people. They trust a pollster that they paid for with the results they demanded.
Pollsters and Pundits and Putzes
Who needs ‘em? ;-)
Baldassare??
What kind of yuppie name is that?
This goes right in line with the SEIU advertisements.
It is a clear and coordinated effort from the left.
The hard left liberals that think they run this state cannot fathom the concept that the people, in general, do not agree with their socialist, racist, anti-business, class envy agenda. So when the people disagree they endeavor to pass off this kind of claptrap in order to ‘convince’ people - in other words they think we need ‘re-education’.
Think - Jedi mind trick.
No speaka the eng? Let me help. NO MORE TAXES. CUT SPENDING. DO IT NOW
Remarkable how any dismissal of the leftist agenda does not reflect the “will of the people!” Maybe that’s why Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown decided to just ignore the results of the Prop 8 vote. They didn’t suit him, so they couldn’t have reflected the will of the people.
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