Name an 'Income-Bent' Governor!
Since this Whoreacle story basically broke over the weekend, even conservatives in Kali were not aware of it and the scope.
We need to get the word out.
I agree wholeheartedly.
Go Simon!
"With seven months to the November general election, in which Davis faces GOP candidate Bill Simon, one particularly ominous finding of the new Field Poll, DiCamillo says, is that registered voters are much more critical of Davis -- disapproving of his work in office by a strong 55 percent to 39 percent margin..."This is EXCELLENT news, particularly in view of the huge "pro-RAT" bias built in to the Field poll's flawed methodology. See, from:
Field Poll Shows Incumbent Governor Davis In Trouble
Bill Simon for Governor | 4/27/02 | Staff
Posted on 4/28/02 1:55 PM Pacific by Liz"-- The Field Poll is different from professional campaign polls because Field calls all California residents randomly and asks them if they are registered to vote and if they are likely to vote. This samples too large a group of voters - including many voters who will never vote and have not been paying attention to the race. Most professional polls exclude these unlikely voters until they express some greater sentiment for voting. In addition, casual voters will tend to forget who the challenger is and default to undecided against an incumbent they know and dislike.The poll further confirms suspicions that career politician and incumbent Governor Gray Davis, whose Administration has been rocked by energy, education and budget failures, continues to see his re-election prospects rejected by Californians. Governors who poll less than 50% in polls after the primary almost always lose. Despite the methodological bias in the Field Poll, it shows that we are in an excellent position to overtake Davis once our advertising campaign begins..."
Fortunately for Simon (unfortunately for the rest of us), there is still a lot of room for mistakes from Davis' operation. We have a projected $22 billion budget deficit (net loss of $35 billion, thank you Mr. Davis); we have billions of dollars in long-term energy contracts taxpayers are still on the line for; and we have Oracle-gate, which won't be going away overnight.
Davis has got to go. He's corrupt and cares about one thing and one thing only: power. That's why fundraising is his favorite and more important activity.
Dump Davis! Go Simon!
I know we're a little more stringent in our tastes here at FR than most, but is it plausible that 27% of Republicans don't disapprove of Red D.
Is this an extension of the Field poll taken April 19-25 with 546 likely voters? Or, do the 1021-546=475 other adults not count as "likely voters?"
It is confusing when the results of one poll are released twice, once at the end of April and again ("new Field Poll .... released today") in the middle of the Oracle scandal a week later. (Perhaps they hurriedly publicized the 14-point lead among the 546 "likely voters" before they actually released the poll?)
Poll: Most Californians favor [first trimester] abortion rights, gun controls
By Alexa Haussler
ASSOCIATED PRESSMay 8, 2002
SACRAMENTO – A new survey shows Californians' feelings about some of the most emotional political issues have remained steady for the past decade: Most favor abortion rights, gun control and capital punishment.
The Field Poll released Wednesday comes as Democratic Gov. Gray Davis attempts to display those issues as evidence his GOP challenger, businessman Bill Simon, is out of touch with voters.
According to the survey of registered voters, a majority of California voters are classified as "pro-choice" on abortion and support greater gun ownership restrictions. However, the poll found that there are sharp differences in opinion between Davis and Simon supporters.
The survey also found that voters who said they were undecided about their choice in the November gubernatorial election held abortion attitudes closer to those held by Davis.
On abortion, the survey shows virtually no change in public opinion in California. Sixty-three percent of registered voters say they approve of allowing abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy, the same proportion as in 1996. In the current survey, 28 percent said they disapprove, while 9 percent had no opinion.
On gun control, voters were evenly split about whether stronger gun control laws reduce violence. But 55 percent said they believe imposing greater controls on gun ownership was more important than protecting the right of Americans to own guns, which was considered more important by 39 percent.
The survey also found that 72 percent of voters favor the death penalty – an issue upon which Davis and Simon agree.
When divided into groups of Davis and Simon supporters, 82 percent of those who back the governor said they favor abortion. That compares to 41 percent of Simon's supporters.
Three quarters of Davis supporters said they back Medi-Cal payments for abortions, while 41 percent of Simon voters said they support the public funding of the procedure.
The telephone survey of 705 California registered voters was conducted between April 19 and April 25. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.8 percentage points.