Calif. electoral vote poll: 22% favor, 53% oppose [View All]

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle

A survey being released Wednesday by a Democratic polling outfit shows the renewed effort to qualify a ballot initiative to eliminate California's winner-take-all rule for Electoral College votes may have a rough ride ahead.

The poll of 687 likely June 2008 voters, conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, found just 22 percent favoring the measure to divvy up the state's 55 electoral votes among the top vote getters in each congressional district and 53 percent opposed. The remaining 25 percent were undecided.

Pollster Ben Tulchin said the most surprising finding was among Republicans, who stand to gain from breaking the Democratic grip on California's electoral votes. They opposed the measure, 46 percent to 22 percent.

He attributed the poor showing to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's opposition, as well as the negative press the measure has received - namely, the decision by the initiative's initial backers to pull the plug amid questions about whether out-of-state GOP money was paying for the effort.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/31/BA2GT3DTH.DTL

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