A UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll for the Los Angeles Times found 46% of registered voters view the temporary redistricting plan as a good idea and 36% view it as a bad idea. Forty-eight percent said they would vote in favor if the measure appeared on a November special election ballot, about a third said they would vote no, and 20% were undecided. Among regular statewide voters support rose to 55% versus 34% opposed. Poll director Mark DiCamillo warned that undecided voters often default to no and that advantage among regular voters is significant. The redistricting aims to counter Republican mapmaking and could affect control of the U.S. House.
The UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll, conducted for the Los Angeles Times, asked registered voters about the Newsom-backed redistricting push favoring California Democrats, which serves as a counterattack to President Trump and Texas Republicans reworking election maps to their advantage. When voters were asked whether they agree with California's redistricting maneuver, 46% said it was a good idea, while 36% said it was a bad idea.
"That's not bad news," said Mark DiCamillo, director of the Berkeley IGS Poll. "It could be better. With ballot measures, you'd like to be comfortably above 50% because you got to get people to vote yes and when people are undecided or don't know enough about initiatives, they tend to vote no just because it's the safer vote." Among voters who regularly cast ballots in statewide elections, overall support for redistricting jumped to 55%, compared with 34% opposed.
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