Opinion: Intel from The Times’ exit poll
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From the Political Muscle blog:
Preliminary results from an L.A. Times exit poll show Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger leads Democrat Phil Angelides by a comfortable margin. The race between Democrat John Garamendi and Republican Tom McClintock for lieutenant governor is much tighter. In the race for attorney general, Democrat Jerry Brown also is leading Republican Chuck Poochigian in the preliminary results. [...] Two major initiatives — Proposition 86, the cigarette tax, and Proposition 87, the oil tax to pay for alternative fuels — were too close to call based on exit polling. The oil tax increase was doing slightly better than the cigarette tax increase. The absentee ballots were trending heavily in the “no” category for the initiatives, but poll voters were making the race tighter. The infrastructure bonds are doing well, all leading with healthy margins. Independent voters were trending heavily toward approving the bonds.