...With the election Tuesday, a whopping 4 out of 10 voters don’t even know Gov. Jerry Brown is running for another term.
“Isn’t that astonishing?” said David Metz of the polling firm Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz and Associates. Metz included the question, “As far as you know, is Gov. Jerry Brown
up for re-election this year?” on a statewide survey of 457 likely
voters last week.
Metz said the question was prompted by several casual conversations
he’d had with people not involved in politics. “I was struck by how many
of them were totally unaware that Brown was up for re-election, so I
decided to test it out,” he said. The findings: Forty-two percent of likely voters didn’t know Brown was running — and only about 1 in 5 could name Republican Neel Kashkari as his opponent.
The lack of awareness cut across all voter groups and party lines. More Republicans knew about Kashkari, but not many more: Fewer than
30 percent of Republicans could name him as Brown’s opponent...
Full story at http://m.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/40-of-voters-unaware-Jerry-Brown-is-seeking-5865196.php
So for some "likely voters," their votes could be had for a song:
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