{"id":13302,"date":"2011-03-24T16:51:52","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T16:51:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-03-24T16:51:52","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T16:51:52","slug":"ppic-support-for-extensions-slipping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/24\/ppic-support-for-extensions-slipping\/","title":{"rendered":"PPIC: Support for Extensions Slipping?"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the heels of the Field poll showing lots of “don’t knows” on Gov. Brown’s performance, out comes the PPIC poll showing slightly declining support for his potential tax extension measures<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Californians’ support for a special election has dropped across parties since January, when majorities favored the idea (73% Democrats, 64% independents, 55% Republicans). Today, 64 percent of Democrats, 57 percent of independents, and just 34 percent of Republicans say it is a good idea.<\/p>\n

Support has also declined since January for the package that voters would be considering-a five-year extension of temporary increases in income and sales taxes and the vehicle license fee to avoid additional budget cuts. Today, less than half (46% all adults and likely voters) favor the governor’s proposal, a decline of 7 points among all adults and 8 points among likely voters. (PPIC<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The protracted debate has clearly taken a toll, with the Republican message basically just being an un-nuanced no.  However, I think you have to take most of these numbers with something of a grain of salt at this point.  The public at large is generally not that well informed on the issues being presented.  I think as we head into an election, the messages being distributed will be stark enough that the undecideds break heavily in one direction or another.<\/p>\n

Which direction that will be remains to be seen.  Oh, and that whole if\/when thing is still lingering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the heels of the Field poll showing lots of “don’t knows” on Gov. Brown’s performance, out comes the PPIC poll showing slightly declining support for his potential tax extension measures<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Californians’ support for a special election has dropped across parties since January, when majorities favored the idea (73% Democrats, 64% independents, 55% Republicans). Today, 64 percent of Democrats, 57 percent of independents, and just 34 percent of Republicans say it is a good idea.<\/p>\n

Support has also declined since January for the package that voters would be considering-a five-year extension of temporary increases in income and sales taxes and the vehicle license fee to avoid additional budget cuts. Today, less than half (46% all adults and likely voters) favor the governor’s proposal, a decline of 7 points among all adults and 8 points among likely voters. (PPIC<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The protracted debate has clearly taken a toll, with the Republican message basically just being an un-nuanced no.  However, I think you have to take most of these numbers with something of a grain of salt at this point.  The public at large is generally not that well informed on the issues being presented.  I think as we head into an election, the messages being distributed will be stark enough that the undecideds break heavily in one direction or another.<\/p>\n

Which direction that will be remains to be seen.  Oh, and that whole if\/when thing is still lingering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3sy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13302","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}