Strategic Vision poll on Washington governor's race

[Sam Spade]

As we stated before during the election, Strategic Vision historically has been a Republican firm, but appeared to poll as an independent polling firm and had a pretty good record in 2004 with regards to all races and with regards to Washington too. 

http://www.strategicvision.biz/political/washington_gov.htm

Below are the results of a three-day poll of registered voters in the state of Washington for the contested governor's race.Results are based on telephone interviews with 800 registered voters in Washington, aged 18+, and conducted January 9-11, 2005. The margin of sampling error is ±3 percentage points.

1. Regardless of who you voted for in November's gubernatorial election, do you believe that the manual recount of the gubernatorial election accurately reflected the actual results of the November gubernatorial election?
     
01/13
Yes 35%, No 57%, Undecided 8%

2. Regardless of who you voted for in November's gubernatorial election, who do you believe actually won the gubernatorial election, Democrat Christine Gregoire or Republican Dino Rossi?
     
01/13
Christine Gregoire 37%, Dino Rossi 52%, Undecided 11%

3. Regardless of who you voted for in November's gubernatorial election, will you view Christine Gregoire as the legitimate governor if she is sworn in on January 12th?
     
01/13
Yes 41%, No 51%, Undecided 8%

4. Regardless of who you voted for in November's gubernatorial election, do you view the disputed ballots in King County that gave Democrat Christine Gregoire her margin of victory as legitimate?
     
01/13
Yes 39%, No 53%, Undecided 8%

5. Regardless of who you voted for in November's gubernatorial election, would you favor another election for governor to resolve the election?
     
01/13
Yes 50%, No 39%, Undecided 11%

6. Regardless of who you voted for in November's gubernatorial election, do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of Christine Gregoire?
     
01/13
Favorable 39%, Unfavorable 55%, Undecided 6%

7. Regardless of who you voted for in November's gubernatorial election, do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of Dino Rossi?
     
01/13
Favorable 50%, Unfavorable 48%, Undecided 2%

8. Regardless of who you voted for in November's gubernatorial election, do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of the Washington Democratic Party?
     
01/13
Favorable 33%, Unfavorable 48%, Undecided 19%

9. Regardless of who you voted for in November's gubernatorial election, do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of the Washington Republican Party?
     
01/13
Favorable 35%, Unfavorable 47%, Undecided 18%

10. Do you approve or disapprove of Senator Patty Murray's job performance?
     
01/13
Approve 55%, Disapprove 39%, Undecided 6%

11. Do you approve or disapprove of Senator Maria Cantwell's job performance?
     
01/13
Approve 46%, Disapprove 40%, Undecided 14%

[Sam Spade]

I have some comments on this poll. 

I'll leave it up for a while before I make them just to see if anyone else has similar observations.

[2952-0-0]

Not surprised that people say the election was stolen. Wish this happened in Florida in 2000.

[12th Doctor]

Looks like Rossi should definatly run against Cantwell in '06.

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Not surprised that people say the election was stolen. Wish this happened in Florida in 2000.

Republicans have better PR than Democrats.

[Beet]

Seriously, this situation is basically the same as in 2000. There are no perfect answers here. The media however either chose to take the side of Rossi in the stories in the press, or the Democrats simply didn't put out any arguments, because the stories that I read were filled with GOP points and literally no counter-points. With coverage like that, these numbers aren't surprising.