Mark DiCamillo
Mark DiCamillo
maybe move negative people straight
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 barrage of negative ads seems to be influencing voters and helping to defeat Proposition 79,
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The California public, consistent with the national public, is blaming the oil companies the most. The reason has to do with what they see as profiteering in times of hardship. When prices run up, the oil companies make more money. They're already having record profits. The public doesn't like that situation. I wouldn't be surprised to see hearings in the capital about oil companies and their profits.
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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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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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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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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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they haven't made any real moves toward organizing a campaign.
accounting immigrants option puts voters
That's one option voters and non-voters embrace. It puts undocumented immigrants into some kind of accounting system.
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As we get around to the election, voters will know which side the pharmaceutical companies will be on, and that could have a negative effect.
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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 wasn't meant to be a partisan reform initiative, but it is clearly perceived that way and I think that has to do with the governor.
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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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There's a clear consensus that we should give (undocumented workers) a path to citizenship. There's bipartisan support.