Gale Kaufman
Gale Kaufman
improvement popularity private shown tracks
This is no surprise. All of our private tracks have shown no improvement in the governor's popularity and all of his initiatives are losing.
appealing both broad candidates classic defined fit
For a change, we actually have two candidates who have defined themselves, or are trying, as they go along. They don't fit into any classic pattern. They're appealing to more of a broad group, both of them.
destroying employees last public second sentence year
Last year he was adamant that public employees were destroying the planet. ... Now he's into infrastructure. Tell me how he got there? It's a long way from the first sentence to the second sentence.
comments decide difficult figures judge seems time until
It's time for him to decide who he really is as governor. He seems to be having a very difficult time in doing that. And until he figures that out, it's really difficult to judge his comments and his actions.
along means people saying
I think it means what we've been saying all along - the governor's initiatives are not real reform. They're not popular, people don't like them, and they're going to lose.
engage fashion hard people systematic ten
It's not hard to get bonds, if you do it in a systematic fashion and you actually engage people for more than ten minutes.
election
This is the first election that's about him .
campaign engaged people serious
We are engaged in a very serious campaign over all of these initiatives and they are all failing, ... And the more people get to know about them, they do worse, not better.
campaign deal focus governor hard people percent points start whether
You can go up 2 points here or 3 points there and try to make a big deal about it. But when people actually focus in on whether this governor should be re-elected, only 37 percent say yes. That's a very hard place to start your re-election campaign from.