New LA Times Poll (hat tip Prestopundit) shows the recall at 56-42% YES. Arnold-Cruz-Tom at 40-32-15. Margin of error 3%.
Poll details show some other interesting tidbits: McClintock leads the challengers in the integrity (75%), favorabilty (62%/25%), won-the-debate (25%) knowlegable (35%) and experience (34%) categories. But Arnold leads handily in the leadership (36%) and anti-special-interests (50%) categories. I guess that's what people are looking for.
And I have no idea what to make of the following: 62% of likely votes think favorably of McClintock (with only 25% unfavorable), yet 49% think him too conservative for California. Sounds like they think one way, but assume others think another way. Very odd. Also says that the Republican Party ought to tread lightly on the threatened payback -- 58% of likely voters agree with his decision to stay in the race.
UPDATE: Love this quote from the Times' article:
Bakersfield Democrat Angela Rodriguez, 29, a technology company manager, is one of them. She plans to vote for Bustamante, but prefers Davis to Schwarzenegger. So if it looks like Schwarzenegger would win, she would switch her vote on the recall."He's a good actor, but that's not good enough," she said. Davis, she added, "can't screw up anything more than he's already screwed it up."
Now there's a person all fired up to vote.
It's Democrats who want McC to stay in the race (80%) -- 61% of Republicans want him to drop out. Do the Dems want him to stay in 'cuz they really like him, or because they think it hurts us?
Posted by: irishlass at October 1, 2003 06:20 PM