***BREAKING*** Prestigious UC Berkeley poll finds 60% of Californians oppose Republican recall

[DemocratSinceBirth]

According to a UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll cosponsored by the Los Angeles Times released Friday, 60.1% of likely voters surveyed oppose recalling Newsom compared with 38.5% in favor of ousting the governor. Fewer than 2% of likely voters remained undecided or declined to answer, suggesting the issue is largely settled in the minds of California voters.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-09-10/democrats-motivated-poll-finds-gavin-newsom-might-easily-survive-california-recall

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Republicans have done everything mechanically correct in the CA recall but

they failed to realize you need an actual reason to eject an incumbent from office - something other than partisanship - as well as a viable candidate to replace the incumbent. Absent those 2 details, your only hope is catching the other party sleeping as far as turnout is concerned.

[Sympthsical]

2. Elder started talking

And that was the end of that.

[Johonny]

6. Floridians and Texans started dropping dead like flies

and suddenly the governor's Covid response didn't seem so bad in comparison to GOP solutions.

[Sympthsical]

7. I doubt that's the case

If voters liked what happened, we'd be seeing more actions with the Delta surge.

Notice just how far away the governor is remaining on Covid nowadays compared to how ubiquitous he was last year. And he doesn't want anyone thinking about the French Laundry.

No, there was and is a lot of dissatisfaction with him. The man has terrible optics. But Elder completely misread the room and figured we wanted full Republican hard core crazy. Then it was just a case, "We don't know what we want, but definitely not that!"

You can draw these polls almost 1:1 with Elders' media exposure. If Republicans had coalesced around someone reasonable and competent, it could've been a tighter race.

[senseandsensibility]

8. I agree. I'm in California and the TV ads are emphasizing

Covid and Elder's stance on vaccinations and masks. For Dem voters, who are the vast majority, Newsom's handling of Covid is a positive.

[Hortensis]

3. "Fewer than 2% of likely voters remained undecided or declined to answer"!

Excellent.

No wonder the Republican trumpist is already claiming the recall's being stolen.

[chia]

4. I didn't believe this recall would succeed, and trashed a couple threads because

I thought the hand-wringing was media and propaganda-driven. Democrats here outnumber Repubs 2-1, and outnumber NPP by about the same. Even if the recall split the NPP vote, I still didn't see how the recall could work and didn't want to expend my shredded energies on entertaining the possibility so I stopped looking at the those threads. I feel confident about it, even though confidence post-2016 is a tenuous thing...

[Budi]

5. Minus the media hype for drama, good to know that sane minds will prevail