Sextant Strategies & Research, in conjunction with Capitol Weekly has released the results of a survey of 1554 likely California voters focusing on the U.S. Senate race.  Toplines for both likely general election and primary election scenarios can be found here. Sextant Senate Poll Toplines Key Findings from pollster Jonathan Brown Senator Feinstein shows the advantages of incumbency.  Three-fourths of Democrats have a favorable opinion of her and 70% approve of her job performance (only 8% disppaprove).  She holds sizable initial leads in both a three-way primary with a Republican (26 points) and a head-to-head matchup with De Leon (19 points)....
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With more email addresses on the California voter file than wireless phone numbers (which, in many CA political surveys, and a small sub-universe of potential respondents willing to answer their phones, it is time for California's political pollsters to begin taking advantage of this resource. Jonathan Brown, President of Sextant Strategies & Research, conducted a survey among likely 2018 general election voters in Orange County, CA with 400 phone respondents and 333 internet respondents.  In addition to finding that President Trump and the Republican Congressional majority were poorly regarded by all but GOP partisans, the survey found consistency across modalities...
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By Jonathan Brown and Paul Mitchell According to our exclusive Capitol Weekly / #CA120 poll before tonights Presidential Debate, rank-and-file Republican voters in California are circling the wagons behind Presidential nominee Donald Trump, even as GOP party leaders and elected officials condemn Trump, with some calling on him to step down. The scandal regarding the recently-released audio of Trump making vulgar comments about women and sexual assault shows the disconnect between voters and party leaders. More than three-in-four California Republicans (76%) are voting for Trump.  These results are in line with the most recent PPIC (Trump 73%) and Field Poll...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 22, 2016 Contact: Jonathan Brown (909) 973-5567; jb@sextant-research.com RECALL OF AARON PERSKY, STANFORD SEXUAL ASSAULT CASE JUDGE, SUPPORTED BY TWO-THIRDS OF SANTA CLARA VOTERS There is currently very strong support among registered voters to recall Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky due to the six-month sentence he gave Stanford University student-athlete Brock Turner following the latter’s conviction for sexual assault earlier this month.   Beyond the 66% of voters who say they would support a recall, 81% believe Persky’s sentence of Turner was too lenient and 77% agree that if Turner had been Latino or...
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