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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums***BREAKING*** Prestigious UC Berkeley poll finds 60% of Californians oppose Republican recall
According to a UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll cosponsored by the Los Angeles Times released Friday, 60.1% of likely voters surveyed oppose recalling Newsom compared with 38.5% in favor of ousting the governor. Fewer than 2% of likely voters remained undecided or declined to answer, suggesting the issue is largely settled in the minds of California voters.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-09-10/democrats-motivated-poll-finds-gavin-newsom-might-easily-survive-california-recall
bucolic_frolic
(42,651 posts)they failed to realize you need an actual reason to eject an incumbent from office - something other than partisanship - as well as a viable candidate to replace the incumbent. Absent those 2 details, your only hope is catching the other party sleeping as far as turnout is concerned.
Sympthsical
(8,925 posts)And that was the end of that.
Johonny
(20,674 posts)and suddenly the governor's Covid response didn't seem so bad in comparison to GOP solutions.
Sympthsical
(8,925 posts)If voters liked what happened, we'd be seeing more actions with the Delta surge.
Notice just how far away the governor is remaining on Covid nowadays compared to how ubiquitous he was last year. And he doesn't want anyone thinking about the French Laundry.
No, there was and is a lot of dissatisfaction with him. The man has terrible optics. But Elder completely misread the room and figured we wanted full Republican hard core crazy. Then it was just a case, "We don't know what we want, but definitely not that!"
You can draw these polls almost 1:1 with Elders' media exposure. If Republicans had coalesced around someone reasonable and competent, it could've been a tighter race.
senseandsensibility
(16,712 posts)Covid and Elder's stance on vaccinations and masks. For Dem voters, who are the vast majority, Newsom's handling of Covid is a positive.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Excellent.
No wonder the Republican trumpist is already claiming the recall's being stolen.
chia
(2,235 posts)I thought the hand-wringing was media and propaganda-driven. Democrats here outnumber Repubs 2-1, and outnumber NPP by about the same. Even if the recall split the NPP vote, I still didn't see how the recall could work and didn't want to expend my shredded energies on entertaining the possibility so I stopped looking at the those threads. I feel confident about it, even though confidence post-2016 is a tenuous thing...