Today’s Capitol Weekly features new poll results from the Capitol Weekly/Probolsky Research CA Poll.  The economy still tops concerns of voters statewide. 

The GOP Primary race for Governor is tightening but Tom Campbell still leads with 13% (voting for and leaning toward), Whitman gets 10% and Poizner at 8%.  This represents a 100% increase in Poinzner’s numbers since our last poll.  Most voters though are undecided.  We changed the ballot designations for all three candidates in this poll to more accurately reflect what might appear on the ballot.  Having reached out to all three candidates to provided a new preferred ballot designation, only Poizner’s campaign provided one: Entrepreneur/Educator

On the Dem side Attorney General Jerry Brown leads with 24% (we did not include Sen. Feinstein this time).  San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom gets 16% and rival from the south LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa rates 15% (all numbers combine voting for and leaning toward voting for).

Voters are split on whether to move full steam ahead with implementing AB32’s cap and trade rules that would bring California’s green house gas emissions back to 1990 levels by 2020.

The generic Congressional Ballot Test favors Democrats and comes close to mirroring party registration statewide.  However when asked if they would elect Members of Congress that would support the President’s proposals or a candidate that would provide greater checks and balances, voters favor the later 36% to 54%.  Voters are weary of single-party rule and like the idea of having someone in Washington having their foot on the break pedal.

The full poll report can be found at www.probolskyresearch.com – go to research results and then choose the report dated today.

This entry was posted on Thursday, June 4th, 2009 at 12:00 am and is filed under Blog Posts.