Mark DiCamillo
Mark DiCamillo
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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.
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The governor has never been able to sell them on the idea and have questioned his motives,
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As the special election has dragged on, one of the side effects have been greater voter cynicism about the reasons the governor called the election, ... The governor has never been able to sell them on the idea and have questioned his motives.
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It's a two-step process. First, people want to know who you are, why you're running, the whole nine yards. Then there's the second stage, where they ask the tougher policy questions about what you believe and what you'd do.
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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 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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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.
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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.
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When we tell voters Proposition 78 is supported by the pharmaceutical companies, it weakens support even from the people who are backing it,
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When politicians try to move from negative to positive, it really is a two-step process. People don't go straight from negative to positive. They go from negative to undecided, and then maybe to positive.
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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.