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Public Policy Polling (PPP), Feb. 17-18, 2011
890 CA-36 likely special election voters. Margin of error: 3.3%. Demographics:
Party: Dem 52%, Repub 28%, Indep 20%.
Race: White 54%,
22% Hispanic, 5% African
American, 8% Asian, 10% Other.
Age: 18-29 10%, 30-45 30%, 46-65 40%, 65+
20%
See quote from PCCC about this poll, and info about PCCC's involvement 2012 races, at the bottom.
| Who would you vote for? | |||||
| QUESTION: Who would you vote for in the special election for Congress if the candidates were current California Secretary of State Deb Bowen and current Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn? | |||||
| Definitely Deb Bowen | Leaning toward Deb Bowen | Definitely Janice Hahn | Leaning toward Janice Hahn | Undecided | |
| ALL | 21% | 11% (33%) | 20% | 9% (29%) | 39% |
| Crosstabs | ||||||||
| Dem Def/Lean Bowen | Dem Def/Lean Hahn | Dem Undecided | Repub Def/Lean Bowen | Repub Def/Lean Hahn | Repub Undecided | Indep Def/Lean Bowen | Indep Def/Lean Hahn | Indep Undecided |
| 26/10 (36%) | 27/9 (36%) | 28% | 10/12 (22%) | 18/10 (28%) | 51% | 23/11 (34%) | 7/11 (18%) | 48% |
| Favorability: Jane Harman | |||
| QUESTION: Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of Congresswoman Jane Harman? | |||
| Favorable | Unfavorable | Not sure | |
| ALL | 46% | 36% | 18% |
| Dem Fav/Unfav | Repub Fav/Unfav | Indep/Other Fav/Unfav | |
| 61/21 | 24/57 | 36/44 | |
| Favorability: Deb Bowen | |||
| QUESTION: Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of California Secretary of State Deb Bowen? | |||
| Favorable | Unfavorable | Not sure | |
| ALL | 37% | 21% | 42% |
| Dem Fav/Unfav | Repub Fav/Unfav | Indep/Other Fav/Unfav | |
| 51/14 | 14/36 | 32/20 | |
| Favorability: Janice Hahn | |||
| QUESTION: Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn? | |||
| Favorable | Unfavorable | Not sure | |
| ALL | 37% | 34% | 29% |
| Dem Fav/Unfav | Repub Fav/Unfav | Indep/Other Fav/Unfav | |
| 50/23 | 24/48 | 22/42 | |
| Issue Positions | ||||||
| QUESTION: Which of these issue positions would make you most likely to vote for a candidate for Congress: promising to crack down on Wall Street and hold big corporations accountable, promising to create jobs, promising to make government more transparent and accountable, promising to focus on the environment and clean energy, promising to fight for pro-choice policies, or promising to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? | ||||||
| Promising to crack down on Wall Street | Promising to create jobs | Promising to make government more transparent/ accountable | Promising to focus on the environment and clean energy | Promising to fight for pro-choice policies | Promising to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan | Something else/Not sure |
| 17% (22 D, 10 R, 13 I) |
28% (28 D, 30 R, 23 I) |
26% (17 D, 42 R, 28 I) |
7% (11 D, 0 R, 8 I) |
3% (4 D, 3 R, 1 I) |
8% (8 D, 6 R, 13 I) |
10% (9 D, 9 R, 15 I) |
| QUESTION: What do you think is more important for the government to do these next two years: focus on creating jobs or focus on reducing the national deficit? | ||
| Creating jobs | Reducing the national deficit | Not sure |
| 51% (68 D, 27 R, 43 I) |
40% (23 D, 68 R, 48 I) |
8% (9D, 5R, 9 I) |
| QUESTION: Which of these do you think is the better way to create jobs: the government working with Wall Street and the business community because they know how to invest in our economy and create jobs, or the government making big investments in our nation’s future now -- hiring people to wire rural America with Internet, repair old roads and bridges, and make serious investments in clean energy? | ||
| Government working with Wall Street and corporations | Government making big investments in the future now | Not sure |
| 32% (16 D, 57 R, 37 I) |
51% (72 D, 17 R, 44 I) |
17% (12 D, 26 R, 19 I) |
| QUESTION: As you know, Congress may try to cut federal programs in order to reduce the budget deficit. For each of the following programs, please tell me whether you think it is more important to cut it in order to reduce the federal budget deficit, or more important to prevent that program from being cut. | |||
| Medicare: | More important to cut Medicare to reduce deficit | More important to prevent Medicare from being cut | Not sure |
| 22% (14 D, 37 R, 23 I) |
64% (76 D, 48 R, 56 I) |
13% (10 D, 15 R, 21 I) |
|
| Social Security: | More important to cut Social Security to reduce deficit | More important to prevent Social Security from being cut | Not sure |
| 22% (14 D, 33 R, 28 |
70% (78 D, 58 R, 66 I) |
8% (8 D, 8 R, 7 I) |
|
| Military spending: | More important to cut military spending to reduce deficit | More important to prevent military spending from being cut | Not sure |
| 59% (74 D, 25 R, 69 I) |
30% (14 D, 66 R, 20 I) ) |
11% (12 D, 9 R, 11 I) |
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| Bipartisanship vs. fighting | ||
| QUESTION: Which of these traits would make you more likely to vote for a candidate for Congress: someone who focuses on getting along with the other political party or someone who promises to fight for families like yours, even if that means fighting hard against political leaders in the other party? | ||
| Someone who focuses on getting along with the other party | Someone who promises to fight for families like yours | Not sure |
| 20% (24 D, 13 R, 21 I) |
64% (65 D, 65 R, 59) |
16% (12 D, 22 R, 20 I) |
QUOTE FROM PCCC:
“This race is neck-and-neck among the top two contenders, Deb Bowen and Janice Hahn. Voters in this district overwhelmingly want a bold progressive candidate who is willing to crack down on Wall Street, embrace government investment in jobs, fight hard for Social Security and Medicare, and make government accountable to the people instead of the big corporations. The PCCC will continue our due diligence in this district in order to assess the most progressive, competent, and viable candidate.” -- Adam Green, PCCC co-founder
PCCC has over 700,000 members and raised over $3 million online last cycle – including $1 million directly for progressive candidates. PCCC’s members also made over 1 million volunteer phone calls for progressive candidates along with Democracy for America. The PCCC engages in a process of "due diligence" when assessing races that includes a candidate questionnaire, conversations with the candidates, and in-district visits. The PCCC makes endorsement decisions based on which candidates and campaigns are most progressive, competent, and viable.