Public Policy Institute of California

Let's go to the statewide races, though.

So Public Policy Institute of California released their latest round of polling data.

I think this is sort of their last polls before Election Day.

And it's just the same thing.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But so, yeah,

well, and again, just to give the specific numbers, the most recent Public Policy Institute of California poll, 61 percent for Becerra, 37 percent for Hilton.

Yeah.

And the latest

PPIC poll shows

Proposition 40 trailing with 46 percent of likely voters supporting the billionaire tax and 52 percent opposed.

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Now here in San Francisco, Mayor Daniel Lurie is backing a series of charter amendments that would change how the city handles contracts, organizes departments, and qualifies future ballot measures.

Voters will also weigh proposals involving affordable housing, the great highway and other local issues along with a number of closely watched races now statewide the governor's race is taking center stage voters also face 14 state propositions in a september poll the public policy institute of california found that most likely voters think there are too many propositions on the ballot and that the state is headed in the wrong direction So what matters most to voters this year? What could the results mean for San Francisco and for California? And what should voters understand before they fill out their ballots? Joining to break it all down, I'm very pleased to have with us Joe Eskenazi, managing editor and columnist with Mission Local.

Welcome back to State of the Bay, Joe.

Thank you.

Thank you for having me.

Good to have you back with us.

And I also want to welcome Mark Baldessari, who is statewide survey director and Miller chair in public policy at the Public Policy Institute of California.

Welcome back to State of the Bay to you, Mark.

I think he'd probably back off that pretty quick.

There was a poll, PPIC does pretty good polls every year.

They did all the propositions, and right now it had 46 yes and 52 no for 40, but they've been off before.

You know, yeah, I think that I think it's also worth noting that, you know, this would be a tax on wealth is like a unique thing.

40 passes or no?

I am like, honestly, not sure it's going to pass.

I think it could be like the PPIC poll, especially like this is not even to mention 41 and 42, these like other initiatives that like could potentially kill it.

I'm getting more texts on this one than any of the other ones and almost all of them.

I mean, what do we know about how voters are feeling about Prop 38 right now?

So there have been a couple of polls by Public Policy Institute of California, both of which indicate that slightly, there's a sort of a slight majority of likely voters who say that they would endorse Proposition 38.

So there was a poll done in September, which said that about 55% of likely voters said they'd support the prop.

The most recent numbers based on a poll from mid to late October were 57%.

I

think you answered my next question, which was that the PPIC has released a poll that showed 70% of likely voters are expecting bad times, financial times in the next 12 months, which would explain, I guess, a sour mood to the electorate.

How do you think that pessimism about their own finances and their own situation is affecting this election? And I'll start with you.

It's going to make them vote pocketbook and focus on that.

So it's a lot of games within the game.

And I think voters are sorting this out.

The polls, the public polls that are out there, PPIC had it 40 ahead narrowly, but they kind of push people to make a decision.

The Berkeley poll that was recently announced, there were more undecideds across the board in all these initiatives, there were more undecideds because people haven't really focused on this yet.