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TexasTowelie

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Wed Jun 19, 2019, 11:18 AM Jun 2019

Is California prepared for a recession? Voters don't think so.

Most California voters don’t think the state is ready for a severe economic downturn, according to a new survey.

A poll from Probolsky Research, given exclusively to The Sacramento Bee, found 63 percent of voters — including a majority of both Democrats and Republicans — don’t think the state government is prepared for a recession.

Most of the 900 responses were collected by phone, while some were gathered online. Across all demographics, voters agreed the state is not prepared. The survey’s margin of error was 3.3 percentage points.

Adam Probolsky, president of the group that conducted the survey, was stunned by the results, given that public opinion polls generally show large differences in views by political party, age, race and likelihood to vote.

Read more: https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article231684848.html

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