Stanford Poll for California Shows Huge Difference, Depending on Whether Respondents Are Asked About Some of Candidates, or All Candidates

This Stanford poll, released a few days ago, shows the huge difference in results, depending on whether pollsters list only a handful of candidates for a particular office, or whether they list all the candidates. Questions 53 and 54 ask about the U.S. Senate race. Question 53 listed only five candidates who will be on the ballot, but Question 54 listed all 32 candidates on the ballot.

When only five candidates were listed, Rocky De La Fuente, a Republican, easily placed second. That question showed Dianne Feinstein at 35%, Rocky De La Fuente at 21%, and Kevin De Leon at 9%.

But when all 32 candidates were listed, Feinstein had 36%, De Leon had 11%, and De La Fuente had 4%.

Question 14 asks about the top-two system. Support was 41%; opposition was 22%; undecided was at 37%.

Questions 50 and 51 are both about the gubernatorial race. Question 50 only lists a few candidates; question 51 lists all candidates.

Question 52 has some candidates for Lieutenant Governor, and appears to be the first publicly-available poll for that office. The poll was taken by the Bill Lane Center for the American West, part of Stanford University.


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Stanford Poll for California Shows Huge Difference, Depending on Whether Respondents Are Asked About Some of Candidates, or All Candidates — 3 Comments

  1. Thanks for the link, Richard. I liked being able to read the entire poll results. Much better than snippet summaries from news.

  2. In the United Coalition poll, the Christocratic Party came in first of 250 consecutively ranked names in a team with about thirty-five write-ins, and we do not censor free speech political party words and names because pure proportional representation (PPR) works great with small numbers or large numbers of people.

    The United Coalition poll seems more legitimate democratically than a group not using PPR in their poll.

    http://www.usparliament.org/ss11.php

  3. Save poll for Weds and compare to the REAL Poll — Tues 5 June 2018 election results

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