[AJFavish]

The questiuon you want to pose is of NO interest to pollers, and for good reason.

It is totally hypothetical and unrelated to actual voter behavior.

That's why it is of no interest to me either. Heck, without concern for reality, I think that Walter Williams would make a bang-up Governor.

Walter Williams is not "Among the candidates running to replace Gray Davis as Governor" so that would not be responsive to the question. The point of the question is to see if a plurality of the people polled would like to see McClintock as Governor. With the present polls, we don't know the answer to that question because people are basing their answers on who can beat somebody else. If McClintock has the strong support I suspect he has, then the results of this poll will make people realize that the person they most want as Governor can also win if they would just vote for him!

[Rabid Dog]

I remember very clearly that Prop. 187 was never, ever going to pass - even on election day.

And it passed - with a 60% majority.

[John Valentine]

I accept your point about Walter Williams, too bad he's not on the list.

But still, this kind of question is really not normally included in objective polling.

Now, in push polling, that is turned right round and this kind of question is de rigeur, as the intent of the poll is not to try to discover voter intent, but to influence voter thinking.

And that's what you are after, too. You want to give people some motive for pushing the McClintock candidacy. That may well be a delightful prospect for a McClintock supporter, and a strategic objective of the McClintock campaign, but it certainly is not an agenda item for a "objective" polling organization.

[Yaelle]

Allen, with all due respect, I am not sure McClintock would be the best governor. He is / sounds like a great conservative, but my DH had some communications with him years ago and ended up with Tom falling from grace in his eyes. He may not be as much of an achiever as a talker. He also seems to have a little mean streak apparent in the campaign. It really gets him and us nowhere when he spends whole interviews bashing Arnold and not Cruz.

I think McClintock supporters just might be wearing rosy sunglasses, and the glint off of Arnold's past might be blinding everyone. The man has achieved everything he set out to achieve. He is not pretending to be a Republican; he really means it even if he is to the center side of the party. Life would be much easier for him if he were a Democrat, both personally and business-wise. He had no qualms about sticking to his party through THIN. I am going to give him my vote.