Mark DiCamillo Change Quotations

There is clear confusion on Prop. 78 as to who is backing it, which means it's the one with the greatest potential for change in preference.

Changes in the economy are relatively slow to hit the man in the street.

slipping ... and it's the direction of the change that is more revealing than the actual numbers themselves.

It's the direction of change that's more important in a final poll than the actual numbers. Unfortunately for the governor, the direction of change is moving against him.

There's not a lot of knowledge about the two initiatives. History shows that voter confusion ... can lead to changes in their preferences.

So many seats in California are safe, and that's true nationally, too. So the opportunities for the out-of-power party to gain (seats in Congress) is really not that great. Most observers would say that only a few seats could change hands.

I would suspect his tone would change significantly if they don't make it onto the November ballot. If that happened, I could see calling the Legislature all sorts of names by the end of the campaign.

It's always more difficult to change somebody's mind once they have a negative impression of you. But he can run against an opponent and try to bring him to the same level or even a lower level than where his negatives are.