Posts Tagged ‘Governor’
What Really Matters
The Field Poll recently asked a scientifically valid number of Californians (who, we’re sure, feel just great about having been scientifically validated) a pretty important question as primary season rolls around:
Thinking of the November election for Governor, how important will the candidates’ position on each of the following issues be to you in deciding whom you would support?
The issues were asked in random order; here they are alphabetically: crime/prisons, education, environmental protection, gasoline prices/energy, global warming, health care, illegal immigration, jobs/economy, state budget deficit, taxes and water.
Only those living in a time warp would be surprised that economic issues rocked the vote … and rocked it hard. Jobs and the economy was ranked most important by almost 60 percent, followed closely by the state’s budget, a few decimal points behind. At the other end of a scale, in near-lockstep for the last two positions were environmental protection and global warming. A scant 23 percent of those polled ranked the imminent destruction of the planet by greenhouse gases as the top priority in their decision-making.
We wonder why, given these results, politicians throughout the state, from Sacramento to local city councils, remain so deferential to environmental interests when these greater environmental protections (as if the laws on the books don’t go far enough already!) come at the cost of jobs.
