Poll: Californians Seek Changes to State Constitution
In the latest Field Poll, 51 percent of Californians believe "fundamental changes" to the state's constitution are needed but 52 percent oppose lowering the 2/3 requirement for budgetary measures.
Brian Leubitz summarized the findings this way: "The state wants some sort of big change, it just doesn't really know how it wants, what it wants, or why it wants it. But, it just wants to start all over again." San Francisco Chronicle:
Fifty-six percent of voters support increasing the simple majority threshold to amend the state Constitution to two-thirds, and 75 percent said sponsors of ballot initiatives should be required to identify how the state would pay for the proposals.
Nearly two-thirds of voters also oppose replacing the corporate income tax and state sales tax with a new tax that would apply to more businesses.
Full splits here.
