Thread: LOS ANGELES TIMES POLL RIGGED TO GET THEIR RESULTS

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LOS ANGELES TIMES/USC POLL

Californians split on Arizona's illegal immigration crackdown

Of the voters surveyed, 50% support Arizona's law and 43% oppose it;

there were sharp divides along lines of ethnicity and age.
And since the BP spill, support for new oil drilling has diminished.

By Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times

May 31, 2010

California voters are closely divided over the crackdown on illegal immigration in Arizona, with sharp splits along lines of ethnicity and age, according to a new Los Angeles Times/USC poll.

FOR THE RECORD:
Los Angeles Times/USC poll: An article in Monday's Section A about California voters' opinions on Arizona's anti-illegal immigration law did not fully describe the measure. The article said the law compels police to determine the status of people they suspect are illegal immigrants. The law applies only to people whom police have stopped for another reason. —

Overall, 50% of registered voters surveyed said they support the law, which compels police to check the immigration status of those they suspect are in the country illegally, while 43% oppose it. That level of support is lower than polls have indicated nationwide.

But attitudes among the state's voters are not uniform. Strong majorities of white voters and those over 50 support the Arizona law, while Latinos and those under 30 are heavily opposed.

Arizona's adoption of the law in April stirred passions and protests across the nation, with cities including Los Angeles voting to boycott the state. The matter has turned into a pressure point in electoral battles, including the Republican gubernatorial primary in California. But the poll shows that most voters, even those with ardent feelings about the measure, said they were unlikely to reject candidates based solely on their immigration stances.

Those who oppose the law were more likely to say they would only support a candidate who agreed with them on that issue, with 1 in 3 making the Arizona law a litmus test for their vote. Supporters of the Arizona law were more likely to say they were voting on other issues.

Gina Bonecutter, 39, a Republican and fervent supporter of the Arizona measure, said she was frustrated by what she sees as unwillingness by recent immigrants to acclimate to American culture. The Laguna Hills mother and part-time educational therapist said large numbers of illegal immigrants are hurting public schools, one of the reasons she placed her four children in private school.

"What I'm seeing today is immigrants coming here, wanting us to become like Mexico, instead of wanting to become American," she said. "That's never going to work."

But in the GOP primary, Bonecutter is supporting Meg Whitman, who opposes the Arizona law, instead of Steve Poizner, who supports it. Poizner has made his support of the law a defining issue in the race, but among his supporters only 9% said they chose the candidate because of his immigration stance.

With the state's finances in dire straits, Bonecutter said Whitman's business background is more important.

On the other side of the issue, Daisy Vidal, 23, of Banning said Arizona's law will lead to racial profiling and she would never vote for a politician who supported it. A registered Democrat, Vidal is a first-generation American, born after her family immigrated to the United States legally in the mid-1980s.

"There should be some type of pathway to citizenship," said the Cal State San Bernardino student. "This whole country was started by immigrants."

The survey of 1,506 registered voters was conducted between May 19 and 26 for The Times and the University of Southern California College of Letters, Arts and Sciences by the Democratic polling firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner and the Republican firm American Viewpoint. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus 2.6 percentage points for the overall sample and slightly larger for smaller breakdowns.

The survey also showed a notable shift in how California voters view offshore oil drilling.


seema.mehta@latimes.com

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POLL: Methodology

The findings of the Los Angeles Times/USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences poll are based on a random sample survey of 1,506 registered voters in the state of California conducted from May 19 to 26, 2010. All interviews were done by telephone using live interviewers from the Interviewing Service of America facility in Van Nuys.

Voters were randomly selected from a list of registered voters statewide. Respondents were reached on a landline or cellphone depending on the numbers they had designated on their voter registrations. The percentage of cellphone respondents in this study matches the percentage of those who list their cellphone on the voter file. Bilingual dialers gave respondents the option of taking the survey in English or Spanish. Up to five attempts were made to reach and interview each randomly selected voter.

In order to include a wider range of questions in the time allocated for this study, some batteries of related questions were split into random half-samples of 753 voters each, or random third samples of 502 voters each.

Upon completion of the interviewing, the results were weighted slightly to more accurately reflect the total population of registered voters throughout the state. Weighting was done to regional and demographic characteristics according to known census estimates and voter-file projections; party registration was weighted to match the most recent 2010 report from the California Secretary of State.

The maximum sampling error for results based on the overall sample of 1,506 registered voters is +/- 2.6 percentage points at the 95% confidence level. The margin of sampling error for the findings from each random half-sample of 753 registered voters is +/- 3.6 percentage points and the margin of sampling error for each third split is +/- 4.5 percentage points.

This survey was conducted for the Los Angeles Times and the University of South California College of Letters, Arts and Sciences by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner in conjunction with American Viewpoint, both based out of Washington, DC.
Copyright © 2010, The Los Angeles Times


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California voters are closely divided over the crackdown on illegal immigration in Arizona, with sharp splits along lines of ethnicity and age, according to a new Los Angeles Times/USC poll.


50% FAVOR ARIZONA LAW

43% AGAINST

Upon completion of the interviewing, the results were weighted slightly to more accurately reflect the total population of registered voters throughout the state. Weighting was done to regional and demographic characteristics according to known census estimates and voter-file projections; party registration was weighted to match the most recent 2010 report from the California Secretary of State.

The LA Times cheated. They put out a stinky poll. LA Times, you've no credibility left.

So we'll just read you to poke fun at you. How sad is that? The people of Southern California can't rely on their largest newspaper for truth in polling! What else can't they rely on?

That's sad. Sad, sad, sad.

what do you expect from the L A Times. they have the same agenda as the mayor and the idiots in the city council

and we should be surprised?