Poll Wars: CA Prop 19: Legal, Regulated Marijuana Favored 50%-40% in New Poll

[JackTheGrower]

CA Prop 19: Legal, Regulated Marijuana Favored 50%-40% in New Poll

For full story http://elections.firedoglake.com/20...egulated-marijuana-favored-50-40-in-new-poll/

California’s Proposition 19, which will legalize, regulate and tax marijuana, is currently winning, 50 percent yes to 40 percent no, according to a new SurveyUSA poll of likely voters sponsored by CBS 5 KPIX-TV.

SurveyUSA 7/8-11
Prop. 19:
Certain Yes 50
Certain No 40
Not Certain 11
(Note: Because of rounding, poll does not always add up to 100 percent)

This is an automatic poll of 614 likely voters with a margin of error of 4 percent. The poll shows a substantially higher preference for marijuana legalization than other recent surveys from Field Research and Reuters/Ipsos , which both had the measure losing narrowly.

Digging deeper in the numbers, not surprisingly, we see that young voters, 18-34, overwhelmingly support Prop. 19 by a margin of 70-22, while voters over 65 oppose it 50-37. Republicans as a whole oppose the initiative, but Democrats and independents favor it by large margins. The race breakdown is the most interesting measure.

Prop 19 Whites Black Hispanic Asian
Certain Yes 50 52 46 53
Certain No 40 24 43 38
Not Certain 11 24 11 9

SurveyUSA does not show a large disparity in support for Prop. 19 between whites and minorities, while the Field Poll found racial minorities significantly more opposed to marijuana legalization than white voters were. For example, SurveyUSA found Hispanics as the racial group least inclined toward Prop. 19 but still showed them supporting it, 46-43. In the Field poll (PDF) on the other hand, Latinos opposed strongly with only 36 percent supporting Prop. 19, and 62 percent against. Field also had only a bare majority, 52 percent, of young voters supporting Prop. 19. But SurveyUSA found 70 percent of young voters planning to vote yes. This is a significant difference between the two pollsters.

I can see that it's a Political Mess with the Political wrangling!

 

[vta]

I just get a kick out of these polls.

600 people polled...1,000 people polled...

Now we got 37,000,000 people...they sample 1,000 and think it's accurate representation of likely votes? lol

Same thing for online polls...all you need is a special interest to have people vote over and over again. Then stupid people and the media report on those polls as if they have some credibility.

I was watching Ventura's City Counsel meeting last night on-line. While they can't seem to figure out a way to regulate Medical Cannabis, they say that they could draft an ordnance for recreational in a couple months if 19 passes. That is an ordnance to regulate and tax Cannabis. The 'money the city would get' came up a few times. Then you have Long Beach...they are salivating at the possibility of extra revenue and have started planning...cities want it to pass! They want that income. Also, everyone forgets that we have a large portion of voters that are 'fiscally inclined'. They see they money that can be made and the money being wasted now. Also, it has been reported that more people are registering for this alone, that a larger number of younger voters that wouldn't otherwise vote are now going to. Lets hope so!

 

[JackTheGrower]

It's already a long road travelled and we still need to beat the drum.

It is interesting that once the NAACP enforced then we had that Negative poll backed up by the Rand "Occasional paper" and for the first time in a long while the Yellow journalism on the T.V. news shows of "Vodoo Cannabis Economics."

So we saw a real attempt to strike a blow after the NAACP.

So it's a worry..

Still it is up to us.. Do you have a Vote-Buddy Vta?

 

[kinesis]

Jack could you please also share this information with the National Law forum, these are the state sub forums. A lot of the hysterics are on that board as well and you should help voter confidence by spreading this. Thanks.

 

[vta]

Still it is up to us.. Do you have a Vote-Buddy Vta?

No Buddy but you can bet I've been telling everyone I know to vote yes!

 

[JackTheGrower]

No Buddy but you can bet I've been telling everyone I know to vote yes!

Get One Fool!