Twenty Candidates Vying for Six Down-the-Ticket’ Partisan State Offices are Generally Not Well-Known
Friday, June 27th, 2008by Mark DiCamillo and Mervin Field, 2.11.98
Besides having to make voting decisions in this year’s Governor and U. S. Senator election races, there are six other partisan state constitutional office contests about which voters will have to decide.
These include Lt. Governor, State Attorney General, Secretary of State, Treasurer, Controller, and Insurance Commissioner.
A statewide Field Poll survey measured the name recognition and image appraisals of twenty candidates whose declaration to run for the six offices had been provided to the Secretary of State’s office, as of early last week. Results show that for the most part the candidates running for these offices are not very well known statewide.
Secretary of State Race
More voters are able to identify Democratic challenger Michela Alioto than her incumbent opponent Republican Bill Jones in the Secretary of State contest. While Alioto is known to 26% of the voters, her image profile (15% favorable vs. 11% unfavorable) is not as positive as is Jones’, whose favorable to unfavorable ratio is 15% to 4%.