As the special election has dragged on, one of the side effects have been greater voter cynicism about the reasons the governor called the election, ... The governor has never been able to sell them on the idea and have questioned his motives.

218

Even though various groups hold very different attitudes, it's important to all sides. It's an issue that can cut both ways.

191

There's a clear consensus that we should give (undocumented workers) a path to citizenship. There's bipartisan support.

164

It's the increasingly partisan rancor that characterizes the Congress. The very partisan Republican orientation of the House is not very well received. The public wants compromises to be reached and they generally don't see many of those things taking place in Congress these days.

159

The survey just looked at registered Latino voters. Had it included non-voters and non-citizens, the numbers likely would have been different.

151

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.

137

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.

117

So many seats in California are safe, and that's true nationally, too. So the opportunities for the out-of-power party to gain (seats in Congress) is really not that great. Most observers would say that only a few seats could change hands.

112

This is an issue that could easily arouse Latino voters. Immigration could be a single issue that could bring out more Latino voters in November.

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