Sunday, October 21, 2012

Recent Poll Shows Filner Lead Over DeMaio By Three Points


Congressman has a slight lead (44% to 41%) in the vote question and is more popular than this Republican opponent

San Diego, CA -- (Sunday, October 21, 2012) – A recent poll conducted of likely San Diego voters shows Congressman Bob Filner leading Councilman Carl DeMaio 44 to 41.

In a representative sample of 400 likely voters were surveyed within the last week, Filner led DeMaio in a head-to-head match-up in the mayor’s race and was the more popular candidate in this contest.

For Filner, 40 percent of the respondents hold a favorable view of the Congressman with only 31 percent viewing him unfavorably. DeMaio is viewed favorably by 36 percent of the respondents while 36 percent offer unfavorable ratings.

The poll sheds a very different perspective than the results of a survey published recently in U-T San Diego. The newspaper has unapologetically boosted the mayoral aspirations of Republican candidate DeMaio, who has enjoyed lavish praise in the newspaper’s pages and benefited from the financial support of its publisher and downtown developer, Papa Doug Manchester.

“The poll clearly shows voters recognize that DeMaio’s extreme agenda is the wrong way for San Diego and that Bob Filner is an effective fighter for the middle class who shares the city’s priorities and values. He’ll get San Diego working again and change our city for the better,” said Evan McLaughlin, spokesman for the San Diegans for Bob Filner for Mayor 2012 committee. “The results also suggest that DeMaio has hit a ceiling and Filner isn’t close to hitting his.”

The Grove Insight survey was conducted using professional interviews and the respondents closely mirror the San Diego electorate in terms of gender, party registration, race and ethnicity and geography.

For more information or to interview Lisa Grove of Grove Insight, please contact San Diegans for Bob Filner for Mayor 2012 spokesman Evan McLaughlin at (619) 850-2790 or SanDiegansForBobFilner@gmail.com.



Questions, as they were posed in the Grove Insight survey, are below:
Dates: Oct. 14-17, 2012
N=400

If the November 6th, 2012 General Election for San Diego Mayor were held today and the candidates were:
[ROTATE NAMES]
__ Carl DeMaio [duh-MY-oh], Businessman, City Councilmember
__ Bob Filner, U.S. Congressman, Educator
for whom would you vote or are you undecided? [IF CANDIDATE IS NAMED, ASK:] Would you say you support
[NAME OF CANDIDATE] strongly or not so strongly? [IF UNDECIDED, ASK:] If you had to vote today, toward
whom would you lean?

DeMaio, strongly .........................................................32       --> 41
DeMaio, not strongly ....................................................5
Undecided, lean DeMaio ..............................................4
Undecided ...................................................................15
Undecided, lean Filner .................................................4
Filner, not strongly .......................................................8
Filner, strongly .............................................................32      --> 44

I’m going to read you a list of people and groups. After each, please tell me overall, do you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, neutral, somewhat unfavorable, or very unfavorable impression of ….

Candidate      Very Fav  Swhat Fav  Neutral Swhat Unfav  Very Unfav  No Opinion  Never
Carl DeMaio       21            15               10             12                 24                 14              5
Bob Filner           24            16               10             14                 17                 15              4

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