Support of a guest-worker program is a significant finding. Republicans and Democrats, voters and nonvoters are all in favor of a guest-worker program. |
That result looks very much like a partisan vote, with any Democrat grabbing that margin among Latinos. That's an obstacle California Republicans didn't have to face 10 or 15 years ago. |
That's one option voters and non-voters embrace. It puts undocumented immigrants into some kind of accounting system. |
That's the most ominous finding. That could have a fairly significant effect on the state's economy if retail spending starts to be hit. |
The barrage of negative ads seems to be influencing voters and helping to defeat Proposition 79, |
The California public, consistent with the national public, is blaming the oil companies the most. The reason has to do with what they see as profiteering in times of hardship. When prices run up, the oil companies make more money. They're already having record profits. The public doesn't like that situation. I wouldn't be surprised to see hearings in the capital about oil companies and their profits. |
The governor has never been able to sell them on the idea and have questioned his motives, |
The governor's image is a negative drag and it is directly related to how people are going to vote on these propositions. |
The last time we were this anxious about the future it preceded a few years of recession. The warning flag is out. . . . A couple years of this would lead to some economic consequences that would be easy to spot in the economy. |
The level of concern has declined, especially compared to a decade ago. And the concern about the loss of jobs, we are definitely correlating to the unemployment rate. |
The overall trend for Arnold Schwarzenegger is favorable, but there are a lot of people still in play. |
The president, in our perspective, is in uncharted territory because he has a really long tenure left and yet he has very low job performance ratings in just his sixth year. Whether he is able to turn it around depends a lot on Iraq. But the events in Iraq seem largely out of his or U.S. control. |
The question always presents itself: How formidable are the challengers? Early measures show them leading by very narrow margins, and the preferences are party based. It's way too early to say whether the challengers will be formidable. |
The story is not a good one for the governor, ... There seems to be a common thread across all the proposition - if Arnold Schwarzenegger has endorsed it, Democrats and nonpartisans are reacting negatively and by turning off those two groups, it has made things very difficult for the governor. |
The survey just looked at registered Latino voters. Had it included non-voters and non-citizens, the numbers likely would have been different. |