The latest poll from the Public Policy Institute of California has most California voters voting Gray Davis out of office, but narrowly. His strongest supporters are LA and Frisco liberal Democrats:
Voter support for a recall is strongly related to partisanship and ideology. Three in four Republicans support the recall effort, compared to one in three Democrats, while independent voters are nearly evenly divided. Similarly, liberals are strongly opposed to a Davis recall, and conservatives are strongly in favor, while moderates are evenly divided. Latinos are more likely than whites to want to keep Davis in office (46% to 37%). It is interesting to note that higher-propensity voters are closely divided on whether to recall the governor or keep him in office?college graduates (44% to 48%), upper-income residents (50% to 44%), and those ages 55 and older (45% to 45%). Majorities of residents in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles want to keep Davis in office, while majorities in the Central Valley and Other Southern California want to remove him from office.
There’s some humor in this, because Davis is not a liberal by any stretch, and in fact his most staunch opponent in Sacramento is liberal John Burton, whose name may very well be on the ballot in November.
Somewhat surprisingly (for a state where Al Gore trounced the President in 2000), President Bush outscores both Gov. Davis and the Legislature:
Job Approval
Gov. Davis 28%
Legislature 39%
Pres. Bush 57%
Gray Davis will probably not be elected President of the United States any time soon, but he might do well in Saudi Arabia.
Links via Rough and Tumble and Roger L. Simon.