Assembly Speaker Karen Bass is rounding out her leadership team. The latest additions: Paul Krekorian and John Pérez.
The Public Policy Institute of California has released a survey of voters looking into why Californians voted for or against Propositions 1A (high speed rail), 4 (abortion notification), 8 (gay marriage) and 11 (redistricting).
Find the full poll results on Capitol Alert's PPIC page.
Most of the results are unsurprising. Evangelical Christians supported Proposition 8 at an 81 percent clip, while voters without a college degree (62 percent) were more likely to vote "yes" than college graduates (43 percent).
One notable number is that a substantially higher percentage of Republicans (77 percent) supported Proposition 8 compared to Proposition 4 (66 percent).
That extra turnout of the GOP base was among the many factors contributing to the measure's success.
Voters have lots of criticism for the initiative process, with 75 percent saying too much money is spent, 63 percent saying ballot wording is confusing and 52 percent saying there are just too many propositions.
But they're satisfied (67 percent) overall with the process.
More importantly, they trust themselves more than their elected officials.
A full 4 percent of respondents said they have a "great deal" of trust and confidence in the state's elected officials.
Did we mention the poll has a margin of error of plus or minus two percentage points?
The Legislature grabbed a 21 percent job approval rating, while Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is sitting (at least relatively) pretty at 42 percent.
Other highlights: The economy is the top issue, rated so by 59 percent of respondents. Barack Obama garnered the support of 78 percent of Latinos. And only 56 percent of Democrats opposed Proposition 11.
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