This morning meeting of the San Gabriel Valley Lincoln Club featured pollster Steve Kinney. Steve (pictured to the right) is great pollster and I enjoy and incorporate many of his messages into political. He has worked for liberals and conservatives.
Kinney showed through data that California is not the radical left-wing state that the media makes it out to be. Our poll numbers are virtually the same on issues as they are in the rest of the country. There is an exception in illegal immigration. California is more concerned about illegals than the rest of the country.
Kinney also listed several issues that polled high in intensity among Californians. The Governor managed to mention only one of them in his State of the State speech (sex offenders).
Kinney also pointed out that the Governor didn’t do well among GOP voters in the special election. I’m sure more debt and fees should do the trick.
In response to a question, Kinney explained that he hasn’t given up hope on the Governor and hoped the "new blood" of Aguiar, Mendelsohn and Schmidt would help. He also added that he wasn’t "confident that the Governor was going to seek re-election." Interesting indeed.