67 Quotes by Mark DiCamillo

Those are pretty rough numbers, the level of cynicism. He just has not communicated with voters in making his case.

The overall trend for Arnold Schwarzenegger is favorable, but there are a lot of people still in play.

What you see is kind of a balanced assessment. There are some policy positions where some voters are fairly lenient to illegal immigrants and on others they're supportive of tougher approaches.

There is a vein of the public that is leery of big industry.

Voters are saying we need someone there who's not going to rock the boat.

The question always presents itself: How formidable are the challengers? Early measures show them leading by very narrow margins, and the preferences are party based. It's way too early to say whether the challengers will be formidable.

When politicians try to move from negative to positive, it really is a two-step process. People don't go straight from negative to positive. They go from negative to undecided, and then maybe to positive.

The president, in our perspective, is in uncharted territory because he has a really long tenure left and yet he has very low job performance ratings in just his sixth year. Whether he is able to turn it around depends a lot on Iraq. But the events in Iraq seem largely out of his or U.S. control.

There are large-scale differences between voters here (on the coast) and voters inland. Within California's borders, there's a red-state region that looks a lot like the Midwest.