Pombo Polling

Hank Shaw at the Stockton Record has a story this morning showing waning support for incumbent GOP congressman Richard Pombo. Of note in the piece is that Wayne Johnson, Pombo's political consultant, seems to take the dip in the numbers seriously. Pombo consultant Wayne Johnson said the campaign's internal polling does not match the Greenberg poll, but he did acknowledge that voters are sour on Congress in general. "The atmospherics are depressing for any incumbent in Congress right now," Johnson said. Still, he said the order of questions in the Greenberg poll could have skewed the results. "You get people in a hanging mood and it can dramatically affect the result," he said.