Support for Calif. Referendum Crucial to Colleges Remains Below 50%, Poll Finds
Likely voters favor the measure, known as Proposition 30, by 48 percent to 38 percent, with 14 percent undecided, according to new poll results. The latest results come a week after another poll found that 46 percent of registered voters supported the measure, leaving it a close contest in the days leading up to the election. If voters reject the measure, California’s public colleges stand to lose $963-million in state financing.
“If there was some reason to believe that this thing was sinking, you should have seen it over the course of the two weeks we were interviewing,” poll director Mark DiCamillo said. “It seems to be treading water. … All they need are two or three percentage points, and there’s certainly a sufficient number of undecideds from which to get that.”
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