Mark DiCamillo
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It's the direction of change that's more important in a final poll than the actual numbers. Unfortunately for the governor, the direction of change is moving against him.
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They were just about to be voted out of office, or in the case of Richard Nixon, he was about to resign. Bush still has more than two years to go, so I think we're in somewhat uncharted territory.
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slipping ... and it's the direction of the change that is more revealing than the actual numbers themselves.
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No one penalty jumps out. Even looking at Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres fans, they want him to play.
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Generally speaking, Californians tend to be more open to allowing an individual to make a decision rather than having something prohibited through government fiat.
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they haven't made any real moves toward organizing a campaign.
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There's not a lot of knowledge about the two initiatives. History shows that voter confusion ... can lead to changes in their preferences.
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The survey just looked at registered Latino voters. Had it included non-voters and non-citizens, the numbers likely would have been different.
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I've never seen a proposition start out this far behind and pass. It's monumental the amount of work (the governor) needs to do on this one.
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I would suspect his tone would change significantly if they don't make it onto the November ballot. If that happened, I could see calling the Legislature all sorts of names by the end of the campaign.
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Different groups of people view this issue very differently. Voters tend to be older, whiter and middle class, while unregistered voters tend to be young and immigrant.
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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.
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The barrage of negative ads seems to be influencing voters and helping to defeat Proposition 79,
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So many voters are undecided that it's still a wide-open race.