- 66 percent, 2/3 of California voters favor the T-Ridge project
- Support for the T-Ridge project is positive throughout California
- 60 percent of respondents who call themselves environmentalists favor the T-Ridge project
- Support for the T-Ridge project is overwhelmingly positive among all party affiliations
- A majority of Democrats favor the T-Ridge project
- Nearly 75 percent of Independent voters support the T-Ridge project
- Four out of every five Republicans want the T-Ridge project
- Californians know about the project, in fact, nearly half of all respondents have heard of the T-Ridge project
- Most Californians would vote in favor of the T-Ridge project if it was placed on the ballot as an initiative
- Voters who favor the T-Ridge project voiced they support it for several reasons, including:
- “It would help California’s economy and its budget problems, we need the revenues.”
- It would, “Cut down on foreign oil dependence; we need to get oil from our own country.”
Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin & Associates (FMMA) conducted a statewide random sample survey of 600 registered voters likely to vote in the November 2010 election. The survey was completed between August 7 and August 13, 2009. The survey’s margin of error is plus or minus 4 percent at the 95 percent confidence level. The error margin for subsets of respondents is higher and varies by the size of the subset.
