Since taking office, the governor has broken a number of important promises. So while we're hopeful, we're naturally skeptical about what he says.
I think it means what we've been saying all along - the governor's initiatives are not real reform. They're not popular, people don't like them, and they're going to lose.
Last year he was adamant that public employees were destroying the planet. ... Now he's into infrastructure. Tell me how he got there? It's a long way from the first sentence to the second sentence.
Part of it is he doesn't have a lot of capital with his own party's leadership. Part of it is he just doesn't understand the process or care to engage in the process.
Why would they do that? They know he's failing.
You can go up 2 points here or 3 points there and try to make a big deal about it. But when people actually focus in on whether this governor should be re-elected, only 37 percent say yes. That's a very hard place to start your re-election campaign from.
We are engaged in a very serious campaign over all of these initiatives and they are all failing, ... And the more people get to know about them, they do worse, not better.
But much more important, here is a man who got elected on the promise that he wouldn't need special interest money and wouldn't take it. He now says he needs it and he'll be happy to take it. How many promises does he get to break before no one believes anything he says?
The governor obviously needs to go on the air because he's so weak in every public and private poll that's been taken. That's the only reason he'd going on air, regardless of what anyone else is doing.
There is so much anger about the governor holding this election that we're not worried about turnout. We will get our base out.
This is based on a presumption that they actually know what was going on in the Capitol, and they don't.
This is the first election that's about him .
This governor is spending $80 million of taxpayer money on an election that voters resoundingly have said is unnecessary. That is the most important figure. The rest is campaign rhetoric.
It's a phony election that he creates on issues that every poll says voters don't care about and he's complaining about having to raise money for it?
It's not hard to get bonds, if you do it in a systematic fashion and you actually engage people for more than ten minutes.
For a change, we actually have two candidates who have defined themselves, or are trying, as they go along. They don't fit into any classic pattern. They're appealing to more of a broad group, both of them.
It looks to me like a lot of posturing is going on. A number of initiatives have been filed and counter-filed, so it's unclear how much of this makes it to the ballot.
It's time for him to decide who he really is as governor. He seems to be having a very difficult time in doing that. And until he figures that out, it's really difficult to judge his comments and his actions.
I'm not surprised people took a break. I think the voters were speaking pretty clearly in November with the force of the 'no' vote.
If there was any visage of bipartisanship left in this governor, I think he's just about put a nail in that coffin.
This is no surprise. All of our private tracks have shown no improvement in the governor's popularity and all of his initiatives are losing.
