Politics, Government and Business in Southern California's Inland Empire
Monday, May 7, 2012 – 10:30 a.m.
Former Massachusetts Governor and apparent Republican Presidential Nominee Mitt Romney is displaying strength in three newly-released polls this morning.
Sunday, April 29, 2012 – 09:30 a.m.
Here’s some interesting factoids from across the financial and political transom:
First Quarter GDP Revised Lower
First quarter Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was revised lower last week to 2.2%. The revised number was mainly supported by strong auto sales. A component that may not be sustainable looking ahead.
Why? Consumer spending has been outpacing non-existent wage growth.
Capitol Alert
The latest on California politics and government
April 25, 2012
California voters are inclined to support Gov. Jerry Brown’s sales and income tax increase, but by a less than overwhelming margin, a new poll by the Public Policy Institute of California has found.
USC DORNSIFE/TIMES POLL
By Anthony York, Los Angeles Times
March 25, 2012, 7:11 p.m.
Reporting from Sacramento— California voters strongly support Gov. Jerry Brown’s new proposal to increase the sales tax and raise levies on upper incomes to help raise money for schools and balance the state’s budget, according to a new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll.
USC DORNSIFE/TIMES POLL
By Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times
March 25, 2012
Republican voters in California have swung behind Mitt Romney, with the national presidential front-runner crushing his rivals by double digits and substantially expanding his support in the state, a new poll has found.
Romney won 42% of registered Republican voters, with his closest rival, Rick Santorum, trailing by 19 points, according to the USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll. Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul were a distant third and fourth.
PolitiCal
On politics in the Golden State
March 23, 2012 | 5:00 pm
California voters do not blame public employees for the state’s pension woes and are in no hurry to make steep cuts in the system, according to a new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll.
Phillip Matier,Andrew Ross, Chronicle Columnist
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Gov. Jerry Brown’s oft-repeated claim that having voters choose among three competing tax measures will spell doom for all of them in November may be more rhetoric than reality.
When the Field Poll tested Brown’s proposal to raise income taxes for the wealthy and sales taxes for everyone last month, it split the survey sample – with half the 1,000 respondents asked only about the governor’s plan and half asked about the Brown measure and its two potential competitors.
By Paul Farhi
Published: March 5
Rush Limbaugh offered more contrition Monday for his comments about a Georgetown law student, but the conservative radio talk-show host continued to lose advertisers as a result of outrage over his characterization of the woman as a “slut” and a “prostitute.”
By Lauren Whittington Posted at 7:02 p.m. on Feb. 11
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won the non-binding Maine presidential caucuses today, capping off a day on which he also won the Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll.
By Dan Walters
Published: Friday, Jan. 27, 2012 – 12:00 am | Page 3A
Last Tuesday, the Public Policy Institute of California issued a new poll that found, among other things, just 17 percent of the state’s voters like the Legislature’s performance.
Simultaneously, the Legislature’s top leaders provided another reason for Californians to harbor such scorn.
Capitol Alert
The latest on California politics and government
January 24, 2012
California voters like Gov. Jerry Brown’s idea of making high earners pay more taxes, but otherwise are of mixed minds about solving the state’s chronic budget woes, according to the Public Policy Institute of California’s latest poll on the topic.
Here are a few findings from the poll, released today:
Thursday, January 19, 2012 – 03:00 p.m.
Take two for San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors candidate James Ramos.
Meaning yes, another push poll.
By Dan Walters
dwalters@sacbee.com
Published: Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011 – 12:00 am | Page 3A
Jerry Brown made a rare gubernatorial appearance this month before a joint legislative committee that was delving – with obvious reluctance – into whether California’s public employee pension benefits should be overhauled.
BY JIM MILLER
SACRAMENTO BUREAU
jmiller@pe.com
Published: 07 December 2011 05:35 PM
SACRAMENTO – Seventy-two percent of voters oppose building off-reservation casinos, according to a new poll commissioned by a group of tribes that oppose plans for two such casinos in the Central Valley.
By Jon Ortiz
jortiz@sacbee.com
Published: Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011 – 12:00 am | Page 3A
Last Modified: Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011 – 10:50 am
A majority of California voters support Gov. Jerry Brown’s plan to dial back public employee pensions and a plurality think that state and local government retirements are “too generous,” according to a new Field Poll.
By David Siders
dsiders@sacbee.com
Published: Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011 – 12:00 am | Page 1A
Last Modified: Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011 – 9:05 am
For all the questions about its management and cost, this much is clear about high-speed rail: Californians who authorized the project three years ago want a do-over, according to a new Field Poll, and by a wide margin they want to vote “no.”
By Dan Walters
dwalters@sacbee.com
Published: Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011 – 12:00 am | Page 3A
Has California’s bullet train project – or pipe dream – finally run off the track? Voters think so.
When the California High-Speed Rail Authority released a much-revised “business plan” for the project that doubled its cost, it won praise in many quarters, including this one, for moving from abject fantasy into at least semi-reality.
BY JIM MILLER
SACRAMENTO BUREAU
jmiller@pe.com
Published: 05 December 2011 06:43 AM
SACRAMENTO — Two-thirds of California voters continue to strongly oppose the likelihood of automatic midyear spending cuts to make up for lower-than-expected state revenue, a new survey shows.
Neil Nisperos, Staff Writer
Created: 12/04/2011 06:03:30 AM PST
RANCHO CUCAMONGA – Election Day may be about 11 months away, but campaigning for the 40th Assembly District seat has quickly progressed.
Polling has been conducted, an endorsement has been made, fundraising has begun and the politicking has been ongoing.
By David Siders
dsiders@sacbee.com
Published: Monday, Dec. 5, 2011 – 12:00 am | Page 3A
Last Modified: Monday, Dec. 5, 2011 – 6:24 am
Gov. Jerry Brown’s public approval rating is still relatively high after almost a year in office, but it has slipped slightly, and the specter of additional spending cuts could erode it further, according to a new Field Poll.
By Michael Doyle
mdoyle@mcclatchydc.com
Published: Friday, Dec. 2, 2011 – 12:00 am | Page 3A
Californians remain poisonously skeptical about Congress, and many blame both parties for the latest budget-cutting failure on Capitol Hill, a statewide poll shows.
By Torey Van Oot
tvanoot@sacbee.com
Published: Thursday, Dec. 1, 2011 – 12:00 am | Page 3A
Voters in deep blue California aren’t so sure they want to send President Barack Obama back to the White House in 2012, but they still prefer the Democratic incumbent over the GOP alternatives by double-digit margins.
By Dan Smith
smith@sacbee.com
Published: Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011 – 12:00 am | Page 3A
Last Modified: Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011 – 8:16 am
California Republicans still favor former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in the GOP’s presidential primary sweepstakes, but they have a new No. 2: Newt Gingrich.
BY JIM MILLER
SACRAMENTO BUREAU
jmiller@pe.com
Published: 28 November 2011 08:50 PM
Most California voters sympathize with the premise of Occupy Wall Street, according to a new survey, which highlights the ideological split about the protests that have sprung up from New York to Riverside to make a case for “the 99 percent.”
USC Dornsife/Times Poll
A majority of California voters want teacher evaluations made public and want student test scores factored into the reviews, the USC Dornsife/L.A. Times poll finds.
By Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times
November 20, 2011, 11:19 p.m.
California voters want teachers’ performance evaluations made public, a new poll has found. And most also want student test scores factored into an instructor’s review.
By Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times
November 16, 2011, 5:40 p.m.
A collapse in support for Texas Gov. Rick Perry has left Mitt Romney as the clear front-runner in California’s Republican presidential primary, but the former Massachusetts governor is still struggling to rally the party’s most conservative voters, a new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll has found.
California Supreme Court urged to issue dismissal
Neil Nisperos, Staff Writer
Created: 10/22/2011 06:16:05 PM PDT
The California Supreme Court is reviewing a request to dismiss lawsuits challenging newly drawn political districts for Congress and the state Senate.
By Kevin Yamamura
kyamamura@sacbee.com
Published: Tuesday, Sep. 27, 2011 – 12:00 am | Page 3A
Last Modified: Tuesday, Sep. 27, 2011 – 9:59 am
FIELD POLL | The economy
David Vargo bought three homes in the Sacramento region within the last 11 years.
He figures the value of his three-bedroom Natomas ranch house has plummeted more than 56 percent from its peak. Though the 64-year-old Vargo owns two of his houses outright, the paper losses were deep enough that he left retirement to work for the U.S. Census Bureau last year.
One in two California voters, including Vargo, say their financial well-being is worse off than a year ago, according to a new Field Poll released Tuesday. It marks the fourth straight year in which at least half of Californians reported a decline in their personal situation, the first time that has happened since Field began asking the question 50 years ago.
Capitol Alert
The latest on California politics and government
September 24, 2011
Days after a Field Poll found a majority of Californians support the concept behind legislation scheduling all ballot measures during the November election, opponents of the bill are pushing back with their own poll results showing voters overwhelmingly oppose Senate Bill 202.
10:00 PM PDT on Monday, September 19, 2011
BY JIM MILLER
SACRAMENTO BUREAU
jmiller@pe.com
SACRAMENTO – California voters overwhelmingly oppose the plan for automatic spending cuts to schools and other programs if state revenue comes in lower than expected, a new poll shows.
At the same time, they give solid marks to the man whose office would oversee the reductions.
By David Siders
dsiders@sacbee.com
Published: Tuesday, Sep. 20, 2011 – 12:00 am | Page 1A
Last Modified: Tuesday, Sep. 20, 2011 – 6:57 am
While politicians all around him watched their popularity plunge in the weak economy, Gov. Jerry Brown ducked the slide.
By Dan Smith
smith@sacbee.com
Published: Thursday, Sep. 15, 2011 – 12:00 am | Page 3A
Last Modified: Thursday, Sep. 15, 2011 – 7:32 am
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is maintaining his edge over a surging Texas Gov. Rick Perry among Republicans looking to California’s June 2012 presidential primary, according to a new Field Poll.
06:57 AM PDT on Wednesday, September 14, 2011
BY BEN GOAD
WASHINGTON BUREAU
bgoad@pe.com
President Barack Obama’s approval rating among Californians fell to a new low in recent months, as the state’s voters continued to struggle with a lasting economic downturn and most concluded that the country is headed in the wrong direction, a new survey found.
10:00 PM PDT on Tuesday, September 6, 2011
BY BEN GOAD
WASHINGTON BUREAU
bgoad@pe.com
When the field of Republican presidential candidates takes the stage for tonight’s debate in Simi Valley, they’ll be talking to California GOP voters who are more staunchly conservative and more Inland-centered than in decades past, a new study shows.
By Shane Goldmacher, Los Angeles Times
September 5, 2011, 6:59 p.m.
California voters are increasingly downcast about the direction of the country, but — like their leaders in Washington — many would rather adhere to party orthodoxy than compromise to address the current economic problems, a new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll shows.
By Dan Walters
dwalters@sacbee.com
Published: Sunday, Sep. 4, 2011 – 12:00 am | Page 3A
Gov. Jerry Brown, moving beyond the ever-vexing state budget that occupied his first months in office, is engaging in two other issues that are just as complicated.
By Michael J. Mishak, Los Angeles Times
August 7, 2011
Reporting from Sacramento—- A run-of-the-mill spat between two lawmakers has escalated into a referendum on government secrecy, exposing the lengths to which the Legislature will go to hide details about how it conducts the people’s business.
TIMES/USC DORNSIFE POLL
Nearly 60% of those polled support changing state law to allow voters to approve local taxes on cigarettes, sugary drinks, liquor and oil pumped from the ground.
By Shane Goldmacher, Los Angeles Times
July 25, 2011
Reporting from Sacramento— Californians would let local officials put new taxes on cigarettes, sugary drinks, liquor and oil pumped from the ground if voters in their communities said it was OK, a new poll shows.
Mitt Romney
By Michael Doyle
mdoyle@mcclatchydc.com
Published: Monday, Jun. 20, 2011 – 12:00 am | Page 3A
California Republicans favor presidential candidate Mitt Romney by a comfortable margin over other Republicans, a Field Poll released today shows.
By Mike Anton, Los Angeles Times
June 18, 2011
Arnold Schwarzenegger isn’t governor anymore. But his poll numbers continue to slide.
Capitol Alert
The latest on California politics and government
June 1, 2011
Gov. Jerry Brown enjoys strong support for his Solomon-like approach to closing the state’s budget deficit, a mixture of spending cuts and tax extensions that would require voter approval, a new Public Policy Institute of California poll has found.
However, when PPIC polled voters on the specific sales, income and car taxes he wants to extend, support dropped well below 50 percent – even though they conceptually supported paying more taxes to maintain spending on K-12 and higher education and health and welfare services and supported cuts only in prisons.
By Kevin Yamamura
kyamamura@sacbee.com
Published: Sunday, May. 29, 2011 – 12:00 am
Last Modified: Sunday, May. 29, 2011 – 9:46 am
Gov. Jerry Brown originally called for a special election in June to ask voters to extend taxes to help balance the state budget, but that became impossible once talks ended in March. Now players at the Capitol are all over the map about whether or when to take the tax question to voters.
Capitol Alert
The latest on California politics and government
April 27, 2011
Most California voters still support Gov. Jerry Brown’s special election to resolve the state deficit, but they send mixed messages when it comes to approving taxes on the ballot, the latest Public Policy Institute of California survey shows.
A cap on pensions and a later retirement age — even for current public employees — are supported by the poll’s respondents.
By Shane Goldmacher, Los Angeles Times
April 24, 2011, 4:23 p.m.
Reporting from Sacramento— California voters want government employees to give up some retirement benefits to help ease the state’s financial problems, favoring a cap on pensions and a later age for collecting them, according to a new poll.
By Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times
April 23, 2011, 4:15 p.m.
Reporting from Sacramento— California voters agree with Gov. Jerry Brown that tax increases should help close the state budget deficit, and they want to vote on his plan for raising the revenue, according to a new Times/USC Dornsife poll.
By Jim Steinberg Staff Writer
Posted: 04/22/2011 10:09:45 PM PDT
Doubts about financial security, their ability to buy a house or save money for retirement loom high among young people transitioning into adulthood during this recession.
PolitiCal
On politics in the Golden State
April 22, 2011 | 2:43 pm
California voters may have a new governor, but they remain pessimistic about the economy and the direction the state is headed, according to a new Times/USC Dornsife poll.
A new survey by the Public Policy Institute of California shows 46% of likely voters backing the governor’s proposed five-year extension on some taxes, a drop from 53% two months ago. The treasurer’s office says delaying a vote on extensions to November could force the state to
By Anthony York, Los Angeles Times
March 24, 2011
Reporting from Sacramento—
Public support for Gov. Jerry Brown’s plan to solve the budget crisis with a June election is eroding as other officials warn that delaying such a move until late fall, as the governor is considering, could trigger a cash crisis and a fresh round of state-issued IOUs.
Feinstein
By Michael Doyle
mdoyle@mcclatchydc.com
Published: Thursday, Mar. 24, 2011 – 12:00 am | Page 3A
Last Modified: Thursday, Mar. 24, 2011 – 8:01 am
WASHINGTON – Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein remains more popular among California voters than her colleague Barbara Boxer, a new Field Poll shows.
But Feinstein can’t rest easy as she prepares for another re-election bid next year. For the first time since her initial 1992 election, less than half of the Californians surveyed consider themselves leaning toward Feinstein.
By Dan Walters
dwalters@sacbee.com The Sacramento Bee
Published: Tuesday, Mar. 22, 2011 – 12:00 am | Page 3A
Last Modified: Tuesday, Mar. 22, 2011 – 7:09 am
The good news for Jerry Brown is that twice as many California voters like his initial performance as governor as dislike it.
The bad news is that his approval rating in a new Field Poll is just 48 percent, the lowest level for any governor’s first weeks in office since George Deukmejian in 1983.
Joe Garofoli, Chronicle Staff Writer
San Francisco Chronicle
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Even in California, where union-funded support led to a Democratic sweep of statewide offices last year, voters support reforms in how public-employee pensions and health benefits are funded – a major shift from two years ago, a new survey by UC Berkeley and the Field Poll found.
06:32 AM PDT on Wednesday, March 16, 2011
By JIM MILLER
Sacramento Bureau
SACRAMENTO – Most California voters share Gov. Jerry Brown’s approach to solving the state’s budget mess, backing his call to extend higher taxes in a special election, according to a new poll.
The plan would take billions out of city coffers and send it instead to school districts, counties and the state. ‘Shameful,’ ‘a disaster’ and ‘a nonstarter’ are among comments from foes of Brown’s idea.
By Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times
January 15, 2011
When he unveiled his proposed budget earlier this week, Gov. Jerry Brown declared on the first page that it was time to push more authority to local governments, so decisions could be made “closer to the people.”
A lot of local officials see his actions very differently.
December 1, 2010
In their last pre-election survey, Oct. 10-17, the Public Policy Institute of California found that six in 10 likely voters said jobs and the economy represented the most important issue facing California and that by a margin of 47-39%, Meg Whitman would do a better job on this pressing concern.
Moreover, while the survey showed Brown leading Whitman 44-36%, it oddly found “independents” – that is, respondents identified as likely voters who said they were registered as independents — divided 36-37% for Whitman.
Murphy
November 10, 2010
In the days following the elections in California and across the country, so many commentators, “political experts” and partisans have engaged in so much overstated, hyperventilated and tortured analysis, we at Calbuzz have hardly known what to say.
But when we saw meathead David Gregory interviewing our friend Mike Murphy, the $90,000-a-month campaign guru for Meg “Biggest Loser” Whitman, on “Press the Meat” the other day, we felt compelled to get up off the floor and say something.
By Jim Sanders
jsanders@sacbee.com
Published: Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010 – 12:00 am | Page 1A
Last Modified: Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010 – 12:05 am
Steve Cooley flashed a two-finger V sign at his election night party, thanking supporters for making him California’s new attorney general.
“Although my highly paid, close advisers say it may be a little too early, I’m declaring victory,” Cooley told a cheering crowd at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.
By Jim Sanders
jsanders@sacbee.com
Published: Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010 – 12:00 am | Page 1A
Millions of Californians will vote today on issues ranging from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s successor to state legalization of marijuana – and for the first time in state history, more mail ballots than precinct votes are expected to be cast.
Months of political arm-twisting, shouting, robocalls and attack ads finally will end with a turnout projected at 9.5 million people, or 55 percent of registered voters, according to a Field Poll released today.
October 31, 2010
Lead in generic ballot large enough to give Republicans solid majority control of U.S. House
by Frank Newport, Jeffrey M. Jones, and Lydia Saad
PRINCETON, NJ — The final USA Today/Gallup measure of Americans’ voting intentions for Congress shows Republicans continuing to hold a substantial lead over Democrats among likely voters, a lead large enough to suggest that regardless of turnout, the Republicans will win more than the 40 seats needed to give them the majority in the U.S. House.
Debra J. Saunders
San Francisco Chronicle
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Former Gov. Pete Wilson is the only politician to have beaten Jerry Brown in an election. In 1982, Wilson, then-San Diego mayor, trounced Brown, then California’s bigfoot governor, in the race for U.S. Senate 51 to 45 percent. Now Wilson serves as Meg Whitman’s campaign chairman. On Thursday, he told me not to believe polls that show Whitman losing by as much as double digits. Whitman, he says, has a real shot at beating Brown.
Polls that show Whitman losing, Wilson said, “are greatly underestimating the enthusiasm on the part of the Republicans and pretty much a lack of it on the other side.”
Election 2010: California Governor
With only a few days until Election Day, Democrat Jerry Brown holds a slightly smaller lead over Republican Meg Whitman in California’s gubernatorial race.
The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters shows Brown picking up 49% support, while Whitman draws the vote from 45%. Two percent (2%) prefer some other candidate, and three percent (3%) are still undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Sunday, October 24, 2010 – 11:30 a.m.
Last Updated: October 24, 2010 – 03:30 p.m.
This weekend we were all treated to another LA Times/USC poll.
However, instead of being disgusted, I rolled on the floor laughing.
The 45th Congressional District race is among closely watched contests that could affect Obama’s policies.
By Jean Merl, Los Angeles Times
October 24, 2010
About three months after entertainer-turned-congressman Sonny Bono died in a skiing accident in January 1998, his widow Mary resoundingly won a crowded special election to succeed him in the Riverside County district. Now remarried to another congressman, Republican Rep. Mary Bono Mack is facing an aggressive reelection challenge from Palm Springs’ Democratic mayor, Steve Pougnet.
Democrat Jerry Brown remains slightly ahead of Republican Meg Whitman in California’s gubernatorial race.
The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters shows Brown picking up 48% of the vote, while Whitman draws support from 42%. Four percent (4%) prefer some other candidate, and six percent (6%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Election 2010: California Senate
California’s U.S. Senate race between Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer and Republican challenger Carly Fiorina remains a virtual tie with less than two weeks to go until Election Day.
The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters shows Boxer picking up 48% of the vote, while Fiorina draws support from 46%. Three percent (3%) prefer some other candidate, and three percent (3%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
October 21st, 2010, 1:41 pm · posted by Martin Wisckol, Politics reporter
At least five public polls have been released in the past week, some of which have different candidates ahead in the governor and U.S. Senate races. And there’s good reason why their results vary.
“They all have a different view of who the likely voter will be,” said election handicapper Allan Hoffenblum. “Nobody has the foggiest idea what the turnout will be.”
October 20th, 2010, 9:00 pm · posted by Martin Wisckol, Politics reporter
A new poll by the Public Policy Institute of California gives Jerry Brown and Barbara Boxer larger leads than other recent polls, but also continues trends of other major polls.
PPIC shows Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Brown leading Republican Meg Whitman, 44 percent to 36 percent among likely voters. Last month, PPIC had Whitman up by 1 point. RealClearPolitics.com’s aggregation of polls shows Brown taking the lead in most surveys since mid-September, and now holding an average of a 3.8-percentage point lead.
October 20, 2010
Propelled by his standing among Democrats, Latinos, women, liberals and especially moderates, Jerry Brown is leading Meg Whitman 44-36% in the latest survey by the Public Policy Institute of California, which also finds Barbara Boxer leading Carly Fiorina 43-38%.
Despite her massive spending – which is expected to reach $180 million – Republican Whitman has been unable to break away from Democrat Brown except among Republicans, conservatives and Southern Californians outside of Los Angeles.
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Environment
October 20, 2010 | Susanne Rust
Once again the nation is watching a California environmental law, waiting to see if the vote on Proposition 23 sets the tone for other states, and the federal government, on how to wrestle with the implications and economics of climate change.
So far, voters here are skeptical about making changes. According to a poll released by the Public Policy Institute of California last night, if the election were held today, California’s anti-global warming legislation, AB 32, would remain intact.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 – 06:00 a.m.
The Republican Governor’s Association released a poll last night indicating the race between republican Meg Whitman and democrat Jerry Brown is in a dead heat.
Discounting this is a republican organization poll, click here to view release.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 – 05:25 p.m.
Both republican nominees for California Governor and U.S. Senate took narrow leads over their democratic rivals in a rare live telephone poll conducted for the period October 13-14.
The poll conducted by Washington D.C.-based Wilson Research Strategies (WRS) sampled 800 likely voters on their preferences.
By Liz Sidoti Associated Press
Posted: 10/17/2010 06:03:52 PM PDT
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s winning coalition from 2008 has crumbled and his core backers are dispirited. It’s now Republicans who stand to benefit from an electorate that’s again craving change.
Saturday, October 16, 2010 – 10:00 a.m.
The latest poll released Friday afternoon has the races for California Governor and U.S. Senate tightening.
A poll released by Reuters/Ipsos has democrat Jerry Brown leading republican Meg Whitman 48% to 44% in the race for Governor. Democrat Barbara Boxer is only edging republican Carly Fiorina 46% to 45%.
Fiorina has been steadily closing in on Boxer over the past ten days, while the Whitman-Brown polling numbers appear to have become more fluid.
Politics Blog
Posted By: Carolyn Lochhead | October 15 2010 at 02:19 PM
A new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows the race between incumbent California Sen. Barbara Boxer and Republican challenger Carly Fiorina in a dead heat — with Boxer just one point ahead, 46 to 45 percent of likely voters — and 18 days to go to election day.
Friday, October 15, 2010 – 03:00 p.m.
Last Updated: October 16, 2010 – 08:30 a.m.
One things for certain.
I’m sure Meg Whitman didn’t expect to be trailing this close to Election Day.
Scott Rasmussen published a poll Friday morning showing Whitman down six points against democrat Jerry Brown. A poll result that should be taken seriously.
Election 2010: California Governor
Coming off a bare-knuckles debate this week, Democrat Jerry Brown hits his highest level of support to date in his race against Republican Meg Whitman to be the next governor of California.
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