Washington Poll: Support Slips for Sound Transit’s Proposition 1

November 4th, 2008

The Seattle Weekly reports that the Washington Poll has released new results from a poll stating:

“Surprisingly, two initiatives that were winning flipped—Eyman’s 985, which had been up two points, is now down fifteen, while Prop 1, sadly, has gone from up seven to down eight, with an increasing number of undecideds. It seems voters have been reading the M.F. Truth.”

Here’s where to find the poll: http://www.washingtonpoll.org/results.html

We’ll see - I wonder whether it will take days for that outcome to become apparent.

Washington State really needs to make the mail-in ballots due by election day.

Elway Poll: All 3 statewide measures passing; lots of undecided voters for down-the-ballot statewide offices

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Stuart Elway's latest poll, which contacted 405 registered voters Oct. 16-19, shows that Tim Eyman's Initiative 985 (traffic congestion) is leading 49-33 with 18 percent undecided. Elway's poll has a 5 percent margin for error. (If you did the poll 100 times, it would turn out this way 95 times.) Elways said this is his last poll before the election. Booth Gardner's Initiative 1000 (assisted suicide), is leading 55-37, with 8 percent undecided. The SEIU's Initiative 1029 (homecare worker training), is leading 72-10, with 18 percent undecided. (My colleague, Jason Hagey, is posting an item about the governor's race, ...

Debate about Sound Transit’s Questionable Survey Methods

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Sound Transit is accused of push-polling - Crosscut

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Sound Transit survey, take 2 - Crosscut

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First, read this excerpt from an e-mail that was forwarded to me by our Letters to the Editor folks...
SoundTransit’s survey is a total sham! I received a fancy card from SoundTransit in the mail asking me to complete their survey. As a good citizen, I went on-line and started to complete the survey. Soon I found out that they didn’t really want my opinion, they wanted to control my feedback. I do not favor light rail because it costs much more than busses and is much less flexible. The survey required me to answer question after question about ...

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Washington Policy Center Poll on Proposition 1(RTID/ST2)

January 2nd, 2008

Transportation Poll

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Since the November election, four polls have been released trying to explain what voters were thinking on the ST2/RTID ballot measure. Washington Policy Center Sound Transit Sierra Club Cocker Fennessy ...

Give Your Two Cents on Transit and Taxes

November 30th, 2007
Two Cents on TransitSpeaking of tracking the reasons Puget Sound’s roads and transit package failed--here’s a chance for Puget Sound residents to put in your two cents about the Proposition 1 vote and where to go from here. Take Sound Transit's survey here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/soundtransit You can let Sound Transit hear your voice on transportation solutions in the region, congestion pricing, the taxes we pay for driving (and the costs we don’t pay), and other fascinating things (well, we ...
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