Posted on 11/01/2005 6:39:31 PM PST by FairOpinion
Election Day is just one week away and two new polls released Tuesday paint different pictures about the challenges facing Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in the campaign's final days.
A new Field Poll shows all four of the governor's propositions failing.
But a Stanford University - Hoover Institution Knowledge Networks poll shows three of four initiatives passing.
On Proposition 75, the Stanford poll shows 64 percent support restricting use of union dues in campaigns, while the Field Poll shows just 40 percent in favor.
The Stanford poll shows 45 percent supporting Proposition 76, while the Field Poll shows just 32 percent supporting the governor's budget reform effort.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbc11.com ...
As the article also said, TURNOUT will be the key, the deciding factor.
And the Dems just created another "grassroots organization":
"A new grassroots organization called the Courage Campaign hopes a new TV ad will get Democrats to the polls.
It is designed to link Schwarzenegger with President George W. Bush."
This must be what MoveOn.org created. See my next post for link.
I think a real all out propaganda effort to defeat the props. is going on here. The important thing is to ignore them and VOTE!
A spinoff group from the liberal political advocacy organization Moveon.org is seeking to link Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s special election initiatives with President Bush and a national Republican agenda.
Its television commercial was scheduled to begin airing Tuesday on CNN in major media markets.
Rick Jacobs, who ran the California campaign for former Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean in 2004, and Wes Boyd, co-founder of Moveon.org, said they have raised about $75,000 to fund the campaign.
The ad tries to persuade voters that Schwarzenegger’s “year of reform” agenda is rooted in longtime policy goals of the Bush administration and the Republican Party.
"The important thing is to ignore them and VOTE!"
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Exactly!
It's quite likely that this is meant to discourage people from voting, so them the Dems could turn out their busloads of illegals.
VOTE VOTE VOTE
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THE CA PROPOSITIONS; Democratic and Republican activists discuss the propositions
Dean urges voters to reject measures governor supports [California]
Davis opposes Schwarzenegger's reform initiatives
CA: Feinstein to oppose Schwarzenegger's special election initiatives
John Alden (Marin cnty Dem Party chairman): Vote no on Prop 76 - we need better leaders
Top Democratic leaders at Penmar Park rally to 'swat' governor's special election measures. Key note speaker: Angelides, Dem candidate for governor
Liberal groups (Moveon.org) try to link special election to broader GOP agenda
Open letter from Phil Angelides (opposing Schwarzenegger and the Propositions)
McClintock's recommendations for CA Propositions
Summary of Recommendations on the CA Propositions by various organizations and parties
CA: McClintock stumps for governor's ballot initiatives
Ad watch: McClintock in radio spot supporting Prop. 76 (includes actual text)
Supporters of the CA Propositions 74-77 include CA Club for Growth, Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association, Ray Haynes, San Fernando Valley Town Hall Conservatives, Republican Party, and many others. Click on the link for a more comprehensive list.
And you can see from links above who are the ones opposing them: Democrats, Unions, Gray Davis, Howard Dean, Phil Angelides, MoveOn.org, various Dem party chairmen, etc.
they could all pass but remember, that nasty 9th circuit!
A radio spot today was aired telling voters that empowering union workers to choose who they donated money to if any was not the real intention of the proposition, and they were being lied to by people who were carrying out the Bush agenda without saying what the lie even was, and the only explanation they gave to help the voter decide which way to vote was that paraphrased “if you hate Bush and Arnold then you should not vote for it”.
The big news is that the Stanford poll shows a conservative drift:
Prop 73 (parental consent on abortion): was 54-46, is now 58-42.
Prop 74 (teacher tenure reforms): was 50-50, is now 53-57.
Prop 75 (union dues restrictions): was 70-30, now slipping but still a very strong 64-36.
Prop 76 (budget reform): was a dreadful 30-70; now merely a dark horse 45-55.
Prop 77 (REDISTRICTING): was merely 50-50; now 55-45.
But the liberal initiatives are failing.
The insurance bailout schemes are down to 51-49 and 50-50.
Who to trust? Well, Stanford's poll was sorta middle ground between an unbelievably conservative Survey USA poll, and an unbelievably liberal PPIC poll. But it should be noted that while Hoover has a conservative outlook relative most of academia, PPIC is funded by moonbats; The James Irvine Foundation was expressly and admittedly founded to "give voice" in the media (i.e., sycophants) to the "oppressed" (i.e., liberals), including specifically to oppose the sort of reforms in Arnold's props.
It's amazign the liberal media will give them an ear, since they admit their agenda (albeit with Orwellian language) is to project bias into the media's reporting.
PPIC even quit polling on the data they couldn't twist.
Their results:
Prop 74: 46% yes to 49 no.
Prop 75: 46-47
Prop 76: 32-63
Prop 77: 50-38
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