Sink, Sank, Sunk

The Governor’s poll numbers continue to lag. True, they are compared to his own astronomical highs of a year ago, but they remain low by most gubernatorial standards. According to a poll released Thursday by the Public Policy Institute of California, just more than one in three Californians approve of the Governor and only one out of three of his initiatives even have a plurality of support. The surprise (and perhaps most ominous number) is that a startling 73 percent of Latinos disapprove of the Governor—even after his recent enactment of regulations for outdoor workers, a group dominated by Latino labor. Schwarzenegger’s campaign spokesman Todd Harris had this to say: The latest Public Policy Institute of California poll is a very useful document if you are interested in what people who are not even registered to vote thought about Gov. Schwarzenegger two-and-a-half weeks ago. That’s right. This is hardly a snapshot of California voters today, given that they went into the field on August 8th. On top of that, almost 25% of the sample was not even registered to vote, and over half of them are not “likely” to vote. That certainly sounds like a whirling dervish of spin to me.