What I didn't notice on the news was any POLLING data about where the propositions stand.See also, from www.fresnobee.com:
Governor's special election in spin cycle
Arnold Schwarzenegger's war on Democratic legislators and their labor union allies may have begun with his famous — or infamous — remark in July 2004 that the lawmakers were "girlie men" for refusing to stand up to the unions.
Active hostilities commenced three months later, on Oct. 27, 2004, when Schwarzenegger, appearing before a women's conference, mocked union nurses who were fighting with him over work rules.
"I'm always kicking their butts," a chuckling Schwarz-enegger said. "That's why they don't like me."
Within days, Schwarz-enegger and his aides were drafting ballot measures that became his "year of reform" crusade, confident his soaring approval ratings, then nearly 70%, would seal his dominance of the Capitol.
As it happened, the one-year anniversary of Schwarzenegger's "kicking their butts" remark Thursday coincided with the release of a new poll indicating Schwarzenegger and his anti-union ballot measures are faring poorly. And the poll shifted both sides into full spin cycle.
The poll, conducted for the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC), found Schwarzenegger wins approval from just a third of all adult California. And of the four measures he is pushing, PPIC said three are running behind among likely voters and the fourth, requiring public worker unions to get members' permission to use dues for politics, is tied.
"Whose butt is getting kicked now?" anti-Schwarzenegger media maven Steve Maviglio crowed in an e-mail to reporters.
Almost simultaneously, the Schwarzenegger camp, citing tracking polls, claimed three of his four measures are winning...
...Clearly, the Schwarzenegger-business coalition has been hoping for a low turnout in which more conservative voters would vote heavily, but if turnout rises to the level the PPIC poll indicates, that would be a plus for his Democrat-union opponents.Varying expectations of turnout could be one explanation for the seeming contradiction between PPIC's findings and those reported by the Schwarzenegger camp. PPIC gave bare-bones descriptions of the measures while the governor's pollsters may have used their own versions...
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