Sac Bee Viewpoint: Climate Change could decide fall elections
I couldn’t agree more, Phil Trounstine & Jerry Roberts.
The whole thing’s well worth a read. Do that here.
Trounstine & Roberts point out that Prop 23 is starting from a weak position, with a little more than a third of those polled in favor.
But a separate crosstab that the Field Poll ran at our request showed that voters who favor Proposition 23 are supporting Whitman over Brown by 55 percent to 34 percent while those who oppose the measure are supporting Brown by 54 percent to 34 percent – virtual mirror images.
At the same time, and even more impressive: Whitman voters are supporting Proposition 23 by 45 percent to 36 percent, but Brown supporters are opposing the measure by an even stronger 60 percent to 28 percent. These are differences you can call statistically significant.
They also give Barbara Boxer a tip:
The undecideds in the Senate race are opposed to the measure 47 percent to 28 percent – giving Boxer an opening to make inroads among voters who haven’t made up their mind about the Senate race but who know for sure they don’t want to roll back California’s climate change law.
