Mark DiCamillo
Mark DiCamillo
calling change names november onto sorts suspect tone
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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So many seats in California are safe, and that's true nationally, too. So the opportunities for the out-of-power party to gain (seats in Congress) is really not that great. Most observers would say that only a few seats could change hands.
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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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There is clear confusion on Prop. 78 as to who is backing it, which means it's the one with the greatest potential for change in preference.
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Changes in the economy are relatively slow to hit the man in the street.
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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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slipping ... and it's the direction of the change that is more revealing than the actual numbers themselves.
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It's always more difficult to change somebody's mind once they have a negative impression of you. But he can run against an opponent and try to bring him to the same level or even a lower level than where his negatives are.
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It is a modest improvement. But it is moving in the right direction.
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I think there has been an overarching re-evaluation of Bush among some members of his own party.
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I think it's a two-step process and it looks like he's successfully getting people over in terms of step one to the undecided column. But there's a segment of voters who are withholding judgment. They know who Schwarzenegger is, but they are not sure.
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Wilson did a masterful job of talking about illegal immigration -- anything but economy and education -- and that was the No. 1 issue.
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People have pretty much adjusted to the risk factor of earthquakes and go about their daily lives.
looks region voters within
There are large-scale differences between voters here (on the coast) and voters inland. Within California's borders, there's a red-state region that looks a lot like the Midwest.