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Weiss poll: Giffords lags in recognition
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People in the know have known for quite some time that Gabrielle Giffords is the front-runner among Democrats seeking Jim Kolbe's seat in Congress.
She leads in telltale signs of money, organization and endorsements, but none of that will help if voters don't know her.
A new poll shows former news anchor Patty Weiss ahead of Giffords by 9 points.
Weiss stands at 32 percent to Giffords' 23 percent in the poll conducted by Washington-based Lake Research Partners. Retired Air Force pilot Jeff Latas is at 7 percent, and Tucson Unified School District Governing Board member Alex Rodriguez had support of 6 percent of the 400 Democrats likely to vote who were surveyed.
Big warning A: People may not be tuning in to the race yet.
Big warning B: It's an internal poll from the Weiss campaign. Candidates often pay for their own polls and tend to release numbers that make them look good.
A lot of this is name recognition, said David Merman, a pollster with Lake who is consulting the Weiss campaign.
People know Weiss from watching the news nightly for three decades, and they like her, Mermin said.
The poll shows 3 in 5 Democrats don't know Giffords. So, she'll need to spend a lot of the war chest she's raised to get her name out while the Weiss campaign can focus on the issues, Mermin said.
Attention, Wal-Mart
shoppers
Pollsters are constantly trying to carve up the masses into neat subgroups in their baffling attempts at political taxonomy.
Blue-state soccer moms elected Bill Clinton. The red-state NASCAR dads did the same for George W. Bush.
Now, Zogby International has found a new cubbyhole stuffed with voters who could play a big part in the 2006 midterm election: weekly Wal-Mart shoppers.
They give President Bush a 41 percent job approval rating in a Zogby poll released last week.
Only 21 percent of the people who avoid Wal-Mart (gives new meaning to "Target voters") approve of how Bush is doing.
So, superstore shoppers will likely be picked apart for their every whim and want to nudge their support by the time of the election.
It pays to be nice
State Reps. Ted Downing, D-Tucson, and Karen Johnson, R-Mesa, came together to craft legislation that allows for auditing of vote tabulation and, in extreme circumstances, a hand recount.
Anything that the hellions of the right and left could agree on had to be something everyone could support, right?
Ha. They soon realized that between them, they had probably alienated the entire Legislature during their tenures, Downing confessed with a chuckle at a public meeting this month.
That's why they had to recruit the laid-back and affable Rep. Jonathan Paton, R-Tucson, to put his name on the bill.
Voila! It passed the Senate 25-3 and the House 51-0.
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Roger H.
Jun 26, 2006 @ 9:52pmI never posted either of the statements above...just so you all know. -
Robin P.
Jun 26, 2006 @ 8:51pmFrom the Latas website: "In the short term, we need to enforce the laws that are currently on the books, including the sanctions against employers who hire undocumented workers........ In the long term, we need to do what we can to help our neighbors in Mexico and Central America so that people can support their families there. Mexico was not even among the top 15 recipients of U.S. Foreign Aid in 2004." These sound like clear and fresh ideas to me.
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Aaron K.
Jun 26, 2006 @ 8:16pmWhat is their stand on illegal immigration?
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