Oregon Poll shows marijuana measure with tenuous lead

[Logical]

This is not good news. Under 50% approval and 16 percent undecided is bad news. Alaska also is very close.

A new poll shows the ballot initiative to legalize recreational marijuana in Oregon faces an uncertain future at the November ballot box.

The Survey USA poll done for KATU showed Measure 91 with a narrow lead of 44 to 40 percent with 16 percent of Oregonians undecided.

What’s particularly concerning for those in favor of legalization is that the ballot initiative has majority support only among voters 18 to 34 — who have been the least likely to vote in mid-term elections.

Voters who are older than 65 oppose marijuana legalization by 28 points, according to the poll results.

"This shows that no race to pass a specific ballot measure is a foregone conclusion,” Marijuana Majority Chairman Tom Angell said in a statement. “It takes hard work and campaigning, and advocates over the next few weeks are going to be hustling to battle perceptions among many supporters that marijuana is simply going to legalize itself.”

Survey USA polled 568 likely Oregon voters between Sept. 22 and 24. Its results had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

http://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/politics/elections/2014/09/26/poll-shows-marijuana-measure-tenuous-lead/16266729/

[Uncle Joe]

1. Wake up and smell the cannabis, 18-34 year olds, we need a historic turnout.

Thanks for the thread, Logical.

[Logical]

2. I was counting on Oregon and Alaska keeping these wins going. Lets hope it does! nt

[yeoman6987]

3. Aren't 65 and above the Woodstock generation?

What happened?

[Logical]

4. "Get out of my yard" mode. Grumpy. nt

[yeoman6987]

6. Sadly accurate.

[Live and Learn]

8. Woodstock was in '69 and most were probably in their late teens

or early 20s so only some of them are even in that group today and the majority of that age group is made up of the previous generation. I am betting that this is the last of the older generation holding up progress in this area as more and more boomers enter the group.

[neverforget]

5. It's got my vote and my wife's too

[Logical]

7. +1 nt