Two new polls out today – from SurveyUSA and PPP – show that progressives are rallying to save California from the right-wing forces that are spending limitless amounts of money to destroy our state and our future.<\/p>\n
First up is SurveyUSA, as reported by Doug Sovern of CBS\/5<\/a> on Twitter:<\/p>\n Brown and Boxer take the lead for first time in two months: Brown 46, Whitman 43. <\/p>\n Also interesting to note Brown’s surge in Rasmussen, since data they sent me yesterday had Whitman still ahead. This polling was done Monday.<\/p>\n Boxer 49 Fiorina 43. That’s an 8-point swing for Boxer in last 3 wks<\/p>\n Prop 19: 47% say “certain” to vote yes, to legalize pot. 42% say “certain” to vote no<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The SUSA poll is very similar to the PPP poll I described yesterday<\/a>, showing Brown up 47-42. PPP also gives Boxer an 8 point lead<\/a> and shows very similar numbers on Prop 19, with it ahead 47-38.<\/p>\n So what do these polls mean? They show quite clearly that progressives are rallying to save California. Whether’s it’s because of Prop 19 or anger at the prospect of right-wing extremists like Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina winning elections, the enthusiasm gap is much narrower here in California (some indications are that it doesn’t exist at all) and as a result, Brown and Boxer as well as Prop 19 now have important leads in the polls.<\/p>\n Yet those leads are still close. Brown and Boxer are rallying right now, but there’s still 6 weeks to go. Whitman and Fiorina have millions more to spend on this race, and have been building a strong field campaign. There’s no time to get complacent or careless. We can save California and build a more progressive future, but only if we keep getting involved and don’t let up, even for a second, between now and November 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two new polls out today – from SurveyUSA and PPP – show that progressives are rallying to save California from the right-wing forces that are spending limitless amounts of money to destroy our state and our future.<\/p>\n First up is SurveyUSA, as reported by Doug Sovern of CBS\/5<\/a> on Twitter:<\/p>\n Brown and Boxer take the lead for first time in two months: Brown 46, Whitman 43. <\/p>\n Also interesting to note Brown’s surge in Rasmussen, since data they sent me yesterday had Whitman still ahead. This polling was done Monday.<\/p>\n Boxer 49 Fiorina 43. That’s an 8-point swing for Boxer in last 3 wks<\/p>\n Prop 19: 47% say “certain” to vote yes, to legalize pot. 42% say “certain” to vote no<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The SUSA poll is very similar to the PPP poll I described yesterday<\/a>, showing Brown up 47-42. PPP also gives Boxer an 8 point lead<\/a> and shows very similar numbers on Prop 19, with it ahead 47-38.<\/p>\n So what do these polls mean? They show quite clearly that progressives are rallying to save California. Whether’s it’s because of Prop 19 or anger at the prospect of right-wing extremists like Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina winning elections, the enthusiasm gap is much narrower here in California (some indications are that it doesn’t exist at all) and as a result, Brown and Boxer as well as Prop 19 now have important leads in the polls.<\/p>\n Yet those leads are still close. Brown and Boxer are rallying right now, but there’s still 6 weeks to go. Whitman and Fiorina have millions more to spend on this race, and have been building a strong field campaign. There’s no time to get complacent or careless. We can save California and build a more progressive future, but only if we keep getting involved and don’t let up, even for a second, between now and November 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1990],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1990"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3gC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}