UPDATE: For those who have PowerPoint, you can download the attachment below and walk yourself through a slide-by-slide presentation of data.
Longtime FR Friend Jamie Fisfis is a principal with Chariot Research. His firm does work literally all over the globe. But they just came out of the field with a survey of California voters, giving us a glimpse of where things are in these final days before the Florida primary, to take place this Thursday.
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From Fisfis:
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January 27th, 2008 at 12:00 am
Interesting statistics. I’m not exactly a “poll” person. Polls can easily lead the media.
I think that the “general economy” is too broad a concept to put so far up the charts. The levels of immigration we are seeing, both legally and illegally especially here in California, also affect jobs. I know alot of engineer’s and they will tell you they are being replaced by lower income workers mainly from India.
A few years after they’ve arrived here, and paid their body shop fee’s to TATA, or whoever sponsored them, they are off to jobs that are the equivalent of what everyone else is making.
This happens across the employment map here in California, as foreign competition continues to flood into every aspect of American daily life.
I think Health care is a moving platform which is swinging on a day by day basis according to the level of spin that’s put out there. On a good day, Hilary and Mitt, can get everyone fired up about Universal Health Care, with all the papers in tow, helping them out.For a minute I thought California Democrats would help pull the platform down, and get Democratic politicians to focus on things outside of Universal Health Care.
No chance, the New York Times wrote an endorsement up fully revitalizing the platform for Universal Health Care, and I pinged it yesterday with some “shocking news about Medi-care and Medi-Cal” fraud, and the history of permanent payroll tax increases, from expansion of Social Security and Medi-Cal.
The ping came back with people in favor of moving onto other issues, which was great.
Until I opened up today’s Contra Costa Times, and it seems Sheila Kuehl is hedging again, instead of her firm “no”, Dem’s and/or the media/Sheila are trying to get a little more indecisiveness out of it, as to hold the platform’s strength for stragglers, especially uneducated ones’ (alot of them tend not to vote), and the natural inbuilt wishful thinking socialists that seems to affect so many wishy washy Americans.
It’s a union hedge as well.
Personally I think Hillary lost to Obama, as people try to help her tear down the platform, of Universal Health Care, and give her a taste of their displeasure, so she gets the hint before the general election.
I agree with the statistics company, Hillary is definitely a firm choice for more Democrats, and Republican voters are more undecided.
I think it’s a papered over race issue, and Obama is a good hedge to wean Hillary off of promoting Universal Health Care. Just my opinion, it doesn’t have to be yours.
I don’t think she will have any problems winning the primary.
In California she has Raul Yzaguirre to do all her promoting to the Hispanic community on her behalf, in my opinion it’s a done deal.
Personally though, I think continuing on with Universl Health Care could sink Hillary. Sheila Kuehl would be wise to listen to reason rather than political hedging and gain the respect of cross over Democrats who will vote against Hilary in the end, for that very reason.
I have friends who are staunch Democrats who will cross over, and vote opposite Hilary depending on what she says about Universal Health Care.
Just my opinion.
Thank you John for the statistics, they were fun to look at.
Titania Jones
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